I hope this is the right group, I suspect this has nothing to do with Windows.
I have been running Kodi 16.0 for over a year. I have an Unraid server running MySQL (5.0.67) and several PCs running Kodi.
Until now, I have had no problems. Lately, when I add a movie (DVD rip), I use this method: I got to Videos->Files and select the video source (for instance DVD) where I stored the rip. I highlight the new movie and the select “I” to get info. Since the movie is not in the database, Kodi displays:
“Select Movie:” and the title. I select the movie title and it displays the title (or multiple if there are more than one) it then takes me to an Info screen where it shows the details. I can then return to the main menu and the movie in now in the library database. This saves time because I don’t have to use the “update library” function which takes a long time to search for new movies.
Well, the last time I added some new movies, I actually DID select the “Update library” process. It took quite a long time and when it returned, my library was twice as big! It had duplicated each and every one of the 535 movies! Well, not quite. The paths of the two entries are different.
When I used the the “Info” function on the duplicates, one lists the correct location on my server, for instance “smb://Tower/Videos/Movies/DVD/The American President (1995)/VIDEO_TS.IFO
and the other entry has this path:
Z;\Movies\DVD\The American President (1995)/VIDEO_TS.IFO
Now, I have used Windows to map the Unraid server (Tower) shared directories to a local drive so that I can copy files (in this case Z
. But here’s the thing: I have been running with this settup for years. I have not even updated Kodi. So why did Kodi do this now?
Can someone who understands how the database is maintained shed some light on this? I am guessing there is no way to reverse the duplications other that to manually remove each one. Is there any other way? And how do I stop this from happening again?
Thanks for any help.