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I've played with the parameters but... it does scan for 3400ish media files however when importing it says 1221.

I click OK and it gives me an "invalid pointer operation"
Then I close the warning and my database is totally impty. if i save it though and re-open the program I can find my (only) 1220 media files.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

One other question, the "Disk tag" option doesn't work very well for me, I've started to modify it and now it's far too long to be managed.

FIY, I *think* this disk tag works quite well:

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(cd|cd |CD| CD |dvd|xvid|divx|xvid(a|b)|(a|b)-xvid|Part|.|oem|disc|disc |\()[0-9]|(a|b|A|B)|([0-9][0-9]){1,5}

(cd|dvd|xvid|divx|xvid(a|b)|(a|b)-xvid|Part|.|oem|disc|\()\s?[0-9]{1,3}|[0-9]{2,3}|(a|b)

But again it's not perfect at all. So I was thinking... would it be possible to have an option to consider multiple video files within the same directory to be part of the same title?

Finally, how about having an option (after the media dir has been scan and before files have been imported) to highlight the files that sit in the same directory? This would help with:
- find duplicates
- fine tune the Disk tag regular expression (for whoever wants to use it of course)

uncheck option "Merge info of media in multi parts/disks".

The disk tag is not case sensitive.

Regarding this point, it is not so easy.
How to determine if a folder contains only a movie with multiple parts or just simple movies ?

But you already have this information after scan ?
You have the parent folder of each movie in a column (after filename) and you can sort by this folder name if you want !?

Done, same result, and same null pointer error. perhaps this is driven by the fact that i have a large database? Can you try to replicate this? perhaps copying directories to make your test relevant?

I think there's people that like to put everything in the same directory and in that case your point is very valid, where other people like me that like to organise by directory, so 2, 3 or even 4 files in the same directory = just one movie. processing this way would avoid going through the DiskTag and precisely identify movies by parent folder name.

Again I'm not saying that everybody organises data on a directory bases, but I'm one of those and perhaps there's somebody else out there that use the same method.

e.g. if i have a series with 6 episodes i just don't store it into my MOVIES directory and I have a SERIES folder for that.

I just though having such a option might help people that's all.

.*\. #merge folder

yes, you're right and that's what I've been doing do far (sorting by name), once again I haven't explain myself too well lol
What i wanted to ask is: is it possible to highlight e.g. the duplicate path? I totally agree with you if you have 25 video you just read the list, if you have 3500 videos, finding duplicates becomes as tedious as browsing the directory manually.