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trickycdr
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 27 Jul 2009 : 21:49:58
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So I install your program.
Scan hard drive for movies and expect it to auto-tag IMDB info.
Program does a bad job, most movies are not tagged.
I figure I need to choose "Use folder names for titles" so I select all the badly imported movies and delete them.
Instead of just clearing the database, your program DELETED 220 MOVIES OFF MY HARD DRIVE!!! 1 TB of movies gone...
Luckily I use a mirror program to backup my drives nightly, just in case a badly written program like yours does something so stupid.
Why would a movie cataloging program DELETE MOVIES???
My Score 0/10, it's going to take 4-5 hours to restore all my movies that your program deleted.
Next step, UNINSTALL. |
Edited by - trickycdr on 27 Jul 2009 22:08:06 |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 27 Jul 2009 : 23:08:12
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BINGO, YOU'VE GOT THE JACKPOT!
I don't know what you've done - but I can't believe that XMM has deleted your movies. Scanning your drives only add the existing movies to the database. Never seen or heared from anybody of deleting movies!
Please explain the complete way the "error" occured incl. your OS and XMM-version.
For me it seems as if there was an error not related to XMM... trickycoder |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
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trickycdr
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 28 Jul 2009 : 03:12:55
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I have been trying many different movie catalog programs, none of them do a very good job of auto-tagging from imdb. I have just decided to view my hard drive in thumbnail view and put a dvd cover in each folder renamed to "folder.jpg".
Anyway, I scanned using the program, saw the results were not good, did a select all in the program, and then right clicked and deleted.
I then tried to scan again with different settings, but now no movies were found...
Never was I in windows explorer, this was done completely from within the GUI of the program.
So now I went to windows explorer and saw that all the folders were intact, all the srt and jpg movies were still intact, but every avi, mkv and wmv file had been deleted.
It is now many hours later, and I am still copying the movies back into place off the mirror hard drive...
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
4685 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2009 : 08:44:23
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I'll try to reproduce that error this evening after work.
Or maybe someone other before... |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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Posted - 28 Jul 2009 : 09:32:55
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Hi Guys,
Sorry very much for my late reply. I think you have answer yes to the question to "delete also movie files"?
When you delete a movie XMM ask you if you want delete also covers and then ask you if you want delete movies files.
I will change this for the next release, I mean that for people that want this feature to delete also movie files they must activate it from configuration window.
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JustME
Junior Member
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Posted - 28 Jul 2009 : 16:32:34
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I did test that early when I was playing with it (I copied a couple of movies off of my drive first) and if you answer yes to delete the movies it will delete them.
I think that would be a good idea to have to delete from a specific request, OR you can pop up one more warning box after yes that says.....You have decided to permanently delete these movie files from your hard drive, are you sure you want to do this?
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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mrabonnington
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Aug 2009 : 22:19:55
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| Thank you for leaving the option in the program that it will still delete the file. I find this alot more efficent. Glad i read this as i thought it was still doing it (have now ticked it in settings) |
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Your Program DELETED ALL MY MOVES, 1 TB