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Relocating folder with movies - Hrvoje - 2020-01-25
I want to move one folder with movies, but at the same time keep watch status.
For example:
\movies\abc\
\movies\action\abc\
Is it possible and how?
RE: Relocating folder with movies - Klojum - 2020-01-25
(2020-01-25, 15:49)Hrvoje Wrote: Is it possible and how?
Kodi doesn't have much finesse (yet..) when it comes to specific video movements.
It's not impossible but requires a bit of twisting and turning.
- You'll have to do a _full_ video library export (don't forget to put the watched status and resume point flags in your advancedsettings.xml if not yet there).
- Move your movie(s)
- Do a Clean Library
- Update the video library
Personally, I find that moving your video files around on your HDDs is kinda pointless when Kodi keeps track of the movie genres internally in its database anyway.
RE: Relocating folder with movies - Hrvoje - 2020-01-25
(2020-01-25, 16:40)Klojum Wrote:I was hoping a bit simple solution, one that doesn't include full export and then import.(2020-01-25, 15:49)Hrvoje Wrote: Is it possible and how?
Kodi doesn't have much finesse (yet..) when it comes to specific video movements.
It's not impossible but requires a bit of twisting and turning.
- You'll have to do a _full_ video library export (don't forget to put the watched status and resume point flags in your advancedsettings.xml if not yet there).
- Move your movie(s)
- Do a Clean Library
- Update the video library
Personally, I find that moving your video files around on your HDDs is kinda pointless when Kodi keeps track of the movie genres internally in its database anyway.
I know Kodi does keep track of genres, but I also like to have files organized locally.
In one of the old versions Kodi automatically recognized watched status and applied it for same items.For example if I watched movie abc and added same movie(different video quality) it applied watched status.Unfortunatelly seems this doesn't work anymore.
RE: Relocating folder with movies - Klojum - 2020-01-25
A watched status is stored for each video file separately. Having different quality versions would still result in different files IMO, as the whole (network) path is also stored in the video database.
Also, having nfo files next to your videos, (re)scraping would work much faster.