by thekochs on Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:54 pm thekochs wrote:SOLVED: Well, the above #5 Update got me thinking. I found that in each of my movie folders (eg. D\{movie name}\) there was a XML called item.xml. So, even though I was deleting the movie.xml in the XL Program Files database subdirectory clearly each of the item.xml files was over-riding any other info. I can't be sure but I think that the existance of these item.xml files messes up or over-rides the Profiler import. It's hard to tell since the message from the F2 import ALWAYS says "Profiler Movies Imported: 0"....even when successful. I recall these item.xml files showing up when I started playing with the DB editor....probably the Spider section. I'm guessing the information download from Spider trials created this item.xml. The problem is that this either blocks and/or overrides the Profiler import. Since the Spider info isn't ready for Prime Time, I wanted/will stay with DVD Profiler. So, once I deleted the Movies.xml in the XL Program Files Database subdirectory and all the Item.xml files in my movies directories and then I did a re-import all the info came in properly. Hope this helps someone else.
Well, I upgraded to 2.0.8036.35. I had to do some resets....even in my custom SKIN.....example my TheaterTek file type launch string was reset to unable, Zoomplayer enabled, my XML DVD Profiler path reset to defaults..frustrating but manageable since I've done a few times.
Anyway, as my posts above stated there is now a item.xml appearing in each of my movie folders. The info in here seems to be from my DVD Profiler XML import. My DVD Profiler XML upon import obviously creates/updates the movies.xml in the Xlobby database directory. The issue I found is that this item.xml overrides the movies.xml....and is not updatable once origionally created !!!! Thus if I do another DVD Profiler import from my "collection.xml" it does update the movies.xml....however the item.xml are not changed from their initial creation.....even if I delete the database and full re-import in F2 under Media Folder for movies. Thus, any actor, plot (overview field in profiler export/xml) are not changed....the origional item.xml content still is present. I have to delete all these item.xml files, then do a delete database in F2, then import, to get the movies database to receive all new/update entries from DVD Profiler Export. I've tested this various ways which changing plots or actors in XMLs and manually out of Profiler and the item.xml's origional creation info rule the show unless they are deleted. So, I'm not sure where/when these starting showing up but is there a way to permantly turn them off and/or make the movies.xml be the governing XML for info ?
