URL shows internet location, not local path

Rogerthat · Post by **Rogerthat** » 2013-01-16 09:22:58

After using scripts to pull the movie information from web sites, the URL changed to the website. So now the local path is not displayed...

Is there a way to show both the local path and the URL?

Post by **antp** » 2013-01-16 10:09:27

You could use a custom field to store one of these two info, but if the local path has been replaced by the web address, it is lost for all existing movies...

Rogerthat · Post by **Rogerthat** » 2013-01-16 19:03:54

That's using the default IMDB script.
Is there a better one?

Rogerthat · Post by **Rogerthat** » 2013-01-17 02:36:54

So what is the best way to fix this?

If I add the movies back in, then they become new entries and I have to look them all up again on a DB somewhere.

bad4u · Post by **bad4u** » 2013-01-17 08:21:57

I think you have 3 possibilities:
1. Simply turn off import to field URL from script options, you find these on the right side of scripting window (modifiable fields)
2. Move stored local paths to another field, which could be done easily with a small script (but script needs to be run every time you added new movies)
3. Edit IMDB (or any other script) script to save URL to another field in your database, which could be done easily by editing line SetField(fieldURL, MovieURL) to something like SetField(yourcustomfieldtag, MovieURL), but that needs to be done every time IMDB script is updated then

Rogerthat · Post by **Rogerthat** » 2013-01-17 23:37:48

I think ant was not designed for local files, it's for DVDs / BDs.

soulsnake · Post by **soulsnake** » 2013-01-18 08:34:18

Hi,

New fields such as filepath, trailer, ... will be added in next major release 4.2

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For now you can use custom fields for that.

Soulsnake.

Post by **antp** » 2013-01-18 18:15:31

Rogerthat wrote:I think ant was not designed for local files, it's for DVDs / BDs.

Actually it was designed for files, but not in the idea to manage the files themselve, rather just list which movies were available on CD (as when I started the program, people were burning divx on CD-R... that's long time ago).

titule · Post by **titule** » 2013-01-19 21:09:22

soulsnake wrote:Hi,

New fields such as filepath, trailer, ... will be added in next major release 4.2 .
For now you can use custom fields for that.

Soulsnake.

Good. I did that and had to struggle with the fact that I need n fields: one for each Disc/Files. That means: a dynamic range.
I added three fields so far but found out that I really need more.

Joe