A question to devs (soultaker ?)

[daavid1]

C'mon you two, kiss and make up :P

[hcasse]

Hi all

I'm glad that most people are finding this application useful. I wrote it as a work around to get generes to show up a bit better in MB. Mainly I wanted my Collection folders to be categorised properly.

The application assumes a few things about your folder setup;

* Source directory is assumed to be a folder which contains movie folders eg;

D:\Movies\
D:\Movies\Batman
D:\Movies\Hulk

In the above example you would use "D:\Movies" as your source directory. If you used just "D:\" it would assume that the "Movies" folder is a collection folder, if you have the "Keep Container folders" option checked, thus it brings it over to your genere target folder.

* Retaining the Collection folder setup is simple, it copies the Collection Folder and it's associated graphics and creates a shortcut for any valid movie folders (thats a movie folder with an mymovie.xml file) in the Collection folder into the associated genere target folder.

This application just helps you exploit a nice feature in MB, the ability to read shortcuts, and the mymovie.xml file in each movie folder.

I hope this helps, cheers 8-)

[casperinmd]

Hi All

Did some investigation to the bug reported by DemonSeed, to cut a long story short it is a bug in the .NET frame work, when scanning directories it attempts to read directories that you have no rights to. Anyway I fixed the issue and added the ability for it to have multiple src folders set.
All seems to work fine for me.

I also found a bug in the container/collection folder cleanup logic ( it was not moving movie links in a collection folder up folder level if there was just one movie in the collection folder, hope that makes sense)

Cheers 8-)

Ok...not sure this is something I overlooked. I have 4 drives, K, L, M, N and all have a Movies folder at the root that contains all of my genre folders under that. When I run the tool with the K:\Movies specified, I always get this error:

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Error : The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B)
Creating Movie Links to K:\Movies.
Clearing invalid Links from D:\MovieShortcuts...
Processing Started at 6/9/2009 4:52:03 PM.
Total of 118 Movie Folders found at K:\Movies

It seems to create them, but the other drives, L:\movies etc never get the error. Nothing fancy about the K: drive either. Same, actually less amount of genre folders listed. Here is my K:\movies folder:

K:\Movies>dir /ad
Volume in drive K is Movies K
Volume Serial Number is 26DD-EDAE

Directory of K:\Movies

05/19/2009 06:55 PM <DIR> .
05/19/2009 06:55 PM <DIR> ..
05/19/2009 05:34 PM <DIR> Action
05/19/2009 05:40 PM <DIR> Anime
05/19/2009 06:05 PM <DIR> Chick Flicks
05/19/2009 06:33 PM <DIR> Comedy
05/19/2009 06:45 PM <DIR> Crime
05/19/2009 06:52 PM <DIR> Drama
05/19/2009 06:55 PM <DIR> Horror
0 File(s) 0 bytes
9 Dir(s) 132,522,524,672 bytes free

K:\Movies>

[hcasse]

Hi casperinmd

The most likely cause of this issue is an unsual folder name.

I will try to make the error reporting a little more specific in next update ( that might be in a few days).

Cheers 8-)

[hcasse]

As promised I have a new version of "Movie Link", this application may not be needed anymore given the latest and great version of MediaBrowser.

But I've added some better error reporting and it now saves your last settings entered that were successfully executed (This make life a little easier for me).

I've tried attaching it but get the message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached." I get this even if I start a new topic, I'll try and attach it later from home.

Cheers 8-)

[casperinmd]

Thanks much hcasse, look forward to testing it out! Probably either delete your old files if no longer needed, or PM an admin or moderator on the site to ask for assistance with your quota. Being at home won't matter, the board knows :twisted:

[hcasse]

As promised I have a new version of "Movie Link", this application may not be needed anymore given the latest and great version of MediaBrowser.
(I removed My first file I uploaded a few weeks ago and then was able upload latest version )


But I've added some better error reporting and it now saves your last settings entered that were successfully executed (This make life a little easier for me).

Cheers 8-)

[tp546]

As promised I have a new version of "Movie Link", this application may not be needed anymore given the latest and great version of MediaBrowser.
(I removed My first file I uploaded a few weeks ago and then was able upload latest version )


But I've added some better error reporting and it now saves your last settings entered that were successfully executed (This make life a little easier for me).

Cheers 8-)

hcasse - thanks for the update on this. im getting an error saying that the source folder is the same or within the target folder but neither is the case. my source folder is J:\HD Movies and my target folder is J;\HD Movies by Genre. I'm also still having the same problem as I did with the last version with my DVDs (that are in a few different locations) that it creates a folder with a shortcut inside it for some movies (and does it repeatedly for the same movies across multiple genres) instead of just the shortcut. Works well with my HD movies though that are all in one location (other than the problem I mentioned).

[hcasse]

This application was designed to do this for collection folders. It does this because I like keeping my collection folders in my Genre view, you can turn this off by unchecking the "Keep Collection/Containers folders" option.

As for the target folder error, I'll have to look into this.

Cheers 8-)

[hcasse]

Quickly posted new version of Movie Link 1.0.03 application with a simplier Source and Target folder validation.

latest version can be found here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2086&p=15104#p15104

Cheers 8-)