How are your movies structured?

[Newtown]

Hi all,

I'm having some scraper issues, and would like to check with you if it perhaps is my folder structure and/or naming that's causing it.

Current set up:
All files are in a Movies folder. Inside, some movies are in folders others aren't. I haven't renamed them, so they mostly have scene naming.

The problem:
Scraping the entire Movies folder only picks up a selected files and skips the rest. This seems to happen mainly on movies inside folders. However, for each of these skipped movies, I can manually refresh the entry to get the data. The manual process works, but it's a bit daunting as there are many movies to get through.

What I've tried:
• Brand new install of XBMC, and it's the same result.
• Put the scraper to None to remove old data
• Possibly tried every single combo in the scraper settings, e.g. scan recursively

Anyone experienced something similar to this or have a better way getting the scraper to play nicely?

Thanks!

[nidge]

Hi, I'm getting the same problem? But I thought it was because all my movies are on a NAS server box

[Dan Dar3]

If you put each movie file(s) into their own separate folder named appropriately with the clean version of the movie and year and set the scraper to "Use folder names for lookup" - that is a more reliable way correctly scrape the files. http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/wiki/Set_Co ... ng_Scraper

Also helpful to separate movies into folders as you can also scrape them using external tools like Media Companion and keep the .nfo file as well as other scraped information separaretely per movie.
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/wiki/Import ... _nfo_Files
https://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/

Finally, you can debug scrapping issues by turning debug on and refreshing one entry or an entire location:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... p?f=6&t=65

[Newtown]

To be honest, I didn't try the "clean" way of scraping, which will be my next step. I'll also check the debug log. Thanks, Dar Dar3.

[NOTTHESAME]

try here guys maybe this can help you guys out, the scraper was broken, dom gave us a quick fix

http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... f=6&t=3608