Moviewizard Wishes - Command line version and Delete watched?

[JavaWiz]

Hmmm... this I don't quite understand as the only drive that is unavailable is disk 2 on the slug, but it seems errors also pop up for the other dirs that are available?

\\Theslug\disk 1\ArchivedMovies\Changi\Changi_20071203_20002100.mpg

Does the above entry (and/or) path exist? It indicates that the network path does not exist.

My guess is that the network path unavailable error may occur when drive is unavailable as well as when the directory on a network dive (that is available) does not exist.

[jksmurf]

\\Theslug\disk 1\ArchivedMovies\Changi\Changi_20071203_20002100.mpg

Does the above entry (and/or) path exist? It indicates that the network path does not exist.

My guess is that the network path unavailable error may occur when drive is unavailable as well as when the directory on a network drive (that is available) does not exist.

:o Nope, that one doesn't exist .... and I realised my error on this one which DOES exist, but it was a second recording ... this happended a few times it seems, sorry!

Code:

2008-03-27 09:01:06.630 VERBOSE [1] MovieWizCore: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Attempt to locate [url=file://theslug/disk]\\Theslug\disk[/url] 1\ArchivedMovies\THE FORGOTTEN\THE FORGOTTEN_20080125_22000000.mpg
2008-03-27 09:01:07.161 ERROR [1] MovieWiz: findEntry()- THE FORGOTTEN_20080125_22000000  EXCEPTION: The network path was not found.
2008-03-27 09:01:07.161 ERROR [1] MovieWiz: findEntryRecurse()- THE FORGOTTEN_20080125_22000000  EXCEPTION: The network path was not found.
2008-03-27 09:01:07.191 VERBOSE [1] MovieWiz: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Unable to resolve: [url=file://theslug/disk]\\Theslug\disk[/url] 1\ArchivedMovies\THE FORGOTTEN\THE FORGOTTEN_20080125_22000000.mpg

Going through this I think I realise that the disconnect of a Network Drive is (crrently) incompatible with the idea of an auto-cleanup (that I thought happened when you used SyncArchived?).

What I find is that because I play and delete shows from XRecord or GBPVR Recordings screens, there are "dead" entries in the MovieWiz database, but I don't even know they are dead until I try to play them from Moviewiz.

The recent addition of a delete button will help here (presumably the MW ENTRY is also deleted?) but an auto-cleanup would also be a nice function to remove "dead entries" i.e. MW (batch) checks if the file actually EXISTS in any DIR (incl. archives) and if it is an incorrect path it updates the path to the correct one. If it doesn't exist it deletes the "dead" entry.

However if you disconnect a drive temporarily as I have suggested above I guess a WHOLE bunch of entries would be deleted. I wonder if you could say don't delete entries from disconnected drives, then this auto-cleanup would work well :-)

Cheers JW and thanks for the help troubleshooting. See, I really DO use your plugin!

k.

[JavaWiz]

Going through this I think I realise that the disconnect of a Network Drive is (crrently) incompatible with the idea of an auto-cleanup (that I thought happened when you used SyncArchived?).

The idea is that if the movie is not found AND it also does not exist in the Archive locations, it will be marked as hidden. To physically remove the entries from the db, you'll have to include the -removeHidden option.

There may be a hole in the case of a network drive not being available, maybe it bypasses the hide code. I'll take a look at that.

What I find is that because I play and delete shows from XRecord or GBPVR Recordings screens, there are "dead" entries in the MovieWiz database, but I don't even know they are dead until I try to play them from Moviewiz.

The recent addition of a delete button will help here (presumably the MW ENTRY is also deleted?) but an auto-cleanup would also be a nice function to remove "dead entries" i.e. MW (batch) checks if the file actually EXISTS in any DIR (incl. archives) and if it is an incorrect path it updates the path to the correct one. If it doesn't exist it deletes the "dead" entry.

Right. That is how it is supposed to work (except it does not delete, it simply marks the entry hidden).

However if you disconnect a drive temporarily as I have suggested above I guess a WHOLE bunch of entries would be deleted. I wonder if you could say don't delete entries from disconnected drives, then this auto-cleanup would work well :-)

I think this might be possible, I'll take a look at it.

[jksmurf]

The idea is that if the movie is not found AND it also does not exist in the Archive locations, it will be marked as hidden. To physically remove the entries from the db, you'll have to include the -removeHidden option.

There may be a hole in the case of a network drive not being available, maybe it bypasses the hide code. I'll take a look at that.

Right. That is how it is supposed to work (except it does not delete, it simply marks the entry hidden).

I think this might be possible, I'll take a look at it.

Cool bananas, thanks JW. I'll need to add -removeHidden, I was a bit nervous about doing this if it deleted the show, but if it just deletes the entry, then OK.

I would still like to add a wishlist request for physically deleting the show after watching it FROM MW though. Otherwise the entry would turn up on the next run-through of the batch and it makes logical sense to me to physically delete from disk after watching it, in the same way as you do this from Recordings or Xrecord.

k.

[JavaWiz]

Cool bananas, thanks JW. I'll need to add -removeHidden, I was a bit nervous about doing this if it deleted the show, but if it just deletes the entry, then OK.

I would still like to add a wishlist request for physically deleting the show after watching it FROM MW though. Otherwise the entry would turn up on the next run-through of the batch and it makes logical sense to me to physically delete from disk after watching it, in the same way as you do this from Recordings or Xrecord.

k.

I'm still not getting this.

Does EVERY show get deleted after watching? I don't think the Recordings or Video Library function in GBPVR automatically deletes shows after I watch them. I don't like the idea of automatically deleting anything from the disk without the users acknowledgement. MovieWiz plugin provides a cmd button to delete them, but that is a MANUAL process.

This is what I'll do. If the delete button is selected from the plugin (Detail Info panel), the entry will be removed from the db AND it will be physically deleted from the system. This means, the user must set the Delete button in the config program for this function to be available AND they must MANUALLY click the button in MovieWiz for the function to occur.

[jksmurf]

I'm still not getting this.

Does EVERY show get deleted after watching? I don't think the Recordings or Video Library function in GBPVR automatically deletes shows after I watch them. I don't like the idea of automatically deleting anything from the disk without the users acknowledgement. MovieWiz plugin provides a cmd button to delete them, but that is a MANUAL process.

Sorry for being a bit hazy on this, but nope, it is not automatic, you have to select "delete" ... but it does physically delete the show when you choose this.

This is what I'll do. If the delete button is selected from the plugin (Detail Info panel), the entry will be removed from the db AND it will be physically deleted from the system. This means, the user must set the Delete button in the config program for this function to be available AND they must MANUALLY click the button in MovieWiz for the function to occur.

Perfect! That is EXACTLY what I'd like. Thanks JW.

k.

[gazoo]

I'll second that manual delete function. That would be nice, like in recordings.

[JavaWiz]

I'll second that manual delete function. That would be nice, like in recordings.

Done. Added in version 1.0.15.0
* Config - Added ability to show Hide OR Delete OR no button on the movie info detail screen.

[jksmurf]

Done. Added in version 1.0.15.0
* Config - Added ability to show Hide OR Delete OR no button on the movie info detail screen.

Just wanted to say I tried this (changed selection to show DELETE button) and it does delete the entry from the Moviewiz database.

However the shows are still "physically" on the disk, and this is what I was hoping the current MW would do. I deleted about 10 shows that I'll never watch last nigt, but now I still need to go recordings or xrecord to delete the actual 10 files. I think this is what gazoo as well as I were wondering if it were possible to implement.

Cheers

Kristian

[JavaWiz]

Just wanted to say I tried this (changed selection to show DELETE button) and it does delete the entry from the Moviewiz database.

However the shows are still "physically" on the disk, and this is what I was hoping the current MW would do. I deleted about 10 shows that I'll never watch last nigt, but now I still need to go recordings or xrecord to delete the actual 10 files. I think this is what gazoo as well as I were wondering if it were possible to implement.

Cheers

Kristian

That should be the way it works. If you could try deleting again, and post the logs, I'll take a look to see why it's not working for you.