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Hi,
I have been re-downloading many movies I already have. When I do this, I delete the old one and keep the new, picking its new data pressing F7 and loading the file.
To my horror, I discovered that movie length is not picked from IMDB, but calculated from the file, but ADDING the new time to the old time, creating a new movie lenght that is the sum of the 2 movies!!!
As a result, my entire collection is now messed up.
I never noticed this because in the low part of AMC there are all those technical datas I thought F7 was going to pick up from the file. The length of the movie in in the mid-top right side, far from this "technical area" and it never occurred to me this was happening.
Is there a solution? A script to re-download the lenght of every movie from IMDB? I have all movies saved with their IMDB link.
Thanks

Hi,
You can disable length import from media files by going to Tools -> Movie -> Media files importation, and uncheck "import length".
To update all existing movies with IMDb script using the IMDb link, select the movies to update then in the script window uncheck all fields you don't want to refresh/overwrite (e.g. keep only "length" checked").
For a faster processing, on the right you can enable the "BatchMode" option from the options list (2x click on the option to change it).
Using that option (when set to "2") it will use the URL instead of doing a title search, and won't bother you confirming the title selection.
Maybe make a backup of your catalog just in case

thank you! this will help a lot!