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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 24, 2012, 01:32:53 pm »
 :o Well, now I must confess that my problems were due to fact that I had not crossed overwrite fields for plugins, doh! I'll try to update series next and find out if there are any similar to Lost...

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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 24, 2012, 12:25:41 pm »
I have a theory now. I deleted once again season 3 from Tudors. I tried to add it back from IMDB/TVDB but couldn't. I used refresh & also cleared filters (although I'm not using them). So next, I deleted the series master for Tudors, this time, there was a prompt to press CTRL + delete to permanently delete records. I only pressed DELETE without CTRL button. Next, I used NMM to add Tudors using IMDB (it's my default plugin). The result: I got Tudors back, but season 3 was still missing.

Next, I deleted Tudors once again, this time I pressed CTRL to make sure to get rid of them permanently :) NMM and this time, I got all 4 seasons back.

So the theory: if record is set inactive/hidden, updating it via plugins will still leave it hidden into db and not refresh this status field?

Anyways I tried other series too, Ketonen&Myllyrinne (tt0898241) with similar results.

However, this should not apply to series which has new episodes added into IMDB after series have been added into PVD, like Lost & CSI series. CSI is now complete until season 9 which only has the first episode.

I'm trying to find out if I can open db to see if there are any missing records for missing episodes.

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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 24, 2012, 09:45:17 am »
Quote from: rick.ca on February 23, 2012, 10:52:43 pm
Are you saying this is a series for which the plugin failed to add missing seasons/episodes, but did add all seasons/episodes after the series was deleted and re-added? If so, what was the series? Are you able to recreate the state where the seasons are incomplete and the plugin is unable to add the missing ones?
First, my apologies for bad terminology.

Yes, this is exactly how it happened. The series was Tudors (tt0758790), I had data for 2 first seasons and there are 4 seasons. I deleted series record and then added it again with NMM tool and it pulled in all 4 seasons with all episodes.

I tried next that I deleted 1 episode from season 3 (from Tudors) and imported data from IMDB, missing episode was not added. The same happened with the TVDB plugin. From URLs, it was possible to see that all 4 seasons were scanned with IMDB, however, TVDB plugin went briefly and I'm not sure what it did. Is there btw any possibility to see e.g. from log files or text files what is actually retrieved? I think that with Lost, only season 1 is scanned (based on URL shown at the bottom), so this could be some plugin issue. However, Tudors seemed to work ok with all the seasons. Next I added the missing episode manually, run both plugins but it was not updated. Next, I added url into episode and then it was updated correctly.

So, it appears that data is mined from IMDB correctly and is not missing. However, at processing, something prevents it to be added into db. Btw, I'm using latest official release, not beta. 0.9.9.21 is the version number. Also, this may be important, I am using option that deleted data is not deleted from db, it is just marked inactive I guess. Also, I have originally imported data for these series with older version, like 2 years ago. I have developed some data mining software for personal use so it looks to me that this part is ok, but, something goes wrong when parsed data is tried to be used i.e. updated into db. Some condition prevents to add it correctly/only updates existing episodes. Related to that, episodes information is very brief with only a few data fields. However, if I select episode & import data, many more fields are actually retrieved. Maybe this is on purpose, I don't know.

I have a few similar series on my db for testing purposes if you have any suggestions :)

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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 23, 2012, 07:12:58 pm »
Thanks for your replies, I have for example in my database series Lost (imdb id tt0411008), all fine until season 5 that has only 6 episodes (likely when I first imported data that was the last one available). Now, there should be 16 episodes and also the final 6th season on IMDB as this is not aired anymore. Now, if I try to import data from IMDB (from movie master), it doesn't import any new seasons/episodes. It will update perhaps some data into movie master as well as set the Last modified field. Importing from TVDB does not help neither.

I actually deleted one movie master that I haven't yet seen (it was incomplete series too) and that had the same problem (it had 2 season out of 4 available on database & episode names were like episode 1#1). Anyways, after deleting the invalid movie master and importing data again from IMDB, I managed to get all 4 seasons correctly into PVD.

So, there seems to be something on PVD preventing data to be inserted into database correctly for series, rather than issue on IMDB plugin in this. I could delete movie master for incomplete series (I have a few of those), but then I would lose track of Seen Dates & what episodes I have actually seen.

Could you pls investigate this a bit more, I appreciate your efforts & providing this software for free.

Oh and maybe this is not a plugin issue after all so should be moved into some other thread...

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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 22, 2012, 01:00:57 pm »
Hi, I have an issue with getting new episodes into series from IMDB or, from TheTVDB. If I have already series data that lacks some new episodes, those new episodes are not added while importing data. I'm using IMDB plugin version 0.9.8.1.

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