Has anyone experienced an instance when the number of episodes listed in the database greatly exceeds the actual number? About a week ago,m MC 3.7.5.2 decided I have 68K episodes for my TV shows and there is no way I have anything close to that.
Uninstalling and reinstalling did not help change that number, and neither did removing all the root folders and adding them again. I bumped down to 3.7.5.1 and that did not change the results. I suspect the database is goobered but I thought removing all the roots and adding them back in wold resolve that and it did not.
Has anyone else seen this? Also, where is the MC database located so I can delete it as a last resort?
Thanks,
TB
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I have only seen that when unique id's or series ID's were not assigned to episode, therefore MC got very confused and saved duplicate data in the tvcache.xml file.
How many series do you have?
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MC database is in the settings folder of Media Companion.
For a test. Rename the settings folder to something like settings.orig
This way you can start MC as clean, set up your options and then add series root folders/Series.
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Thank I'll try renaming the folder. I already tried the F5 refresh, no go and the unique ID are there for the most part (except it can't often find the IMDB ones)
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I solved it! It turns out I had done a batch update on rating scores and for the locked shows, the TVDB/IMDB ids were blanked out. I did another scrape and asked it to overwrite the NFO and included locked shows and now the episode number is now accurate.
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Has anyone experienced an instance when the number of episodes listed in the database greatly exceeds the actual number? About a week ago,m MC 3.7.5.2 decided I have 68K episodes for my TV shows and there is no way I have anything close to that.
Uninstalling and reinstalling did not help change that number, and neither did removing all the root folders and adding them again. I bumped down to 3.7.5.1 and that did not change the results. I suspect the database is goobered but I thought removing all the roots and adding them back in wold resolve that and it did not.
Has anyone else seen this? Also, where is the MC database located so I can delete it as a last resort?
Thanks,
TB
You can try a refresh from the NFO files with TV Shows -> Refresh All TV Shows (F5). It will recreate the database without rescraping.
The database for series is located in settings\tvcache.xml
I have only seen that when unique id's or series ID's were not assigned to episode, therefore MC got very confused and saved duplicate data in the tvcache.xml file.
How many series do you have?
MC database is in the settings folder of Media Companion.
For a test. Rename the settings folder to something like settings.orig
This way you can start MC as clean, set up your options and then add series root folders/Series.
Thank I'll try renaming the folder. I already tried the F5 refresh, no go and the unique ID are there for the most part (except it can't often find the IMDB ones)
I had another look in table view and way more IDs are empty than I thought, so I'll try filling those in to see what happens.
I solved it! It turns out I had done a batch update on rating scores and for the locked shows, the TVDB/IMDB ids were blanked out. I did another scrape and asked it to overwrite the NFO and included locked shows and now the episode number is now accurate.
Hunted this issue down and is fixed in release 3.754b.
Note: you will need to be a Refresh All which will fix episode id match to series.
But a batch reshape will not wipe ids anymore.
Enjoy