Import Directory Madness....

[jorton]

I'm about to lose it...

I decided that to make sure that everything was clean on my server I should reinstall Sagetv and start fresh after all the beta's etc... with a fresh wiz.bin and the only thing I was going to use again was my exported favorites.xml from the web ui.

Before the reinstall I originally had my import directories as follows,

K:\Movie Library 1\
L:\Movie Library 2\
M:\Movie Library 3\
N:\Movie Library 4\

After I decided to go the SMB route with the import directories as follows,

\\Mediaserver\movies_1\Movie Library 1\
\\Mediaserver\movies_2\Movie Library 2\
\\Mediaserver\movies_3\Movie Library 3\
\\Mediaserver\movies_4\Movie Library 4\

Here's where I'm lost, I see duplicates listed for about 30 of the movies (out of about 500). One listed with the original drive letter path above (K:Movie library 1\) amd then again with the SMB path (\\Mediaserver\movies_1\Movie Library 1\). It's the same movie and since I never used the drive letter paths on the reinstall I can't for the life of me figure out where they are coming from.

If I remove the SMB paths from the import directory listing (in Settings) the drive letter versions are still there and there should be nothing as there aren't any import paths....

When I go into BMT and go to Browse, the duplicates (drive letter ones) are seen when I select "Videos", if I select imports there aren't any.... ugh.

Help, any ideas???

Jeremy

[hedly]

I had a similar issue when I moved things around.

Here's what you do, make four empty folders with the same names as the original paths, but make them empty.

Hide/remove/or empty the four new paths with all the data.

Then have sage rescan them all empty.

Then get rid of the four drive letter folders and then remap the ones with the UNC paths \\Mediaserver...

rescan and then it should all be fixed. Yeah, it seem like it should work without doing all this but for some reason when it rescans it doesn't seem to remove all the old files.

[jorton]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Jeremy

[GKusnick]

This has nothing to do with your problem, but sharing out the root of the drive is overkill, because it will include a lot of system stuff (like the recyle bin) that Sage doesn't need to scan. You should really just share out the actual folder that contains your media, so your UNC paths would look more like this:

\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 1\
\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 2\
\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 3\
\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 4\

[jorton]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

This has nothing to do with your problem, but sharing out the root of the drive is overkill, because it will include a lot of system stuff (like the recyle bin) that Sage doesn't need to scan. You should really just share out the actual folder that contains your media, so your UNC paths would look more like this:

\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 1\
\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 2\
\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 3\
\\Mediaserver\Movie Library 4\

Yah, I shared the root of the drives rather than just the movie folders, I'll share just the movie folders and do as you suggest.

Thanks,

Jeremy