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Author Topic: Is there a dry run mode for import?  (Read 1888 times)

mattkhan

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Is there a dry run mode for import?
« on: August 24, 2014, 04:15:16 am »

I run import manually for films as I've had problems in the past with import repeatedly duplicating content that I've massaged into particles (for TV shows mainly). However I have a feeling that I now have missed a few discs I've ripped so need a method to find any such content without running into that duplicate problem. A dry run mode (a la like -n to rsync) would be ideal. Does this exist?

Alternatively is there a way to programatically query jriver to test whether some file/directory is in the library?
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Re: Is there a dry run mode for import?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 04:02:08 pm »

Any suggestions welcome!
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Re: Is there a dry run mode for import?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 04:56:49 pm »

Import should never reimport the same filename.  So ideally you'd just run the import and it'd work.
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Re: Is there a dry run mode for import?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2014, 05:11:10 pm »

Import should never reimport the same filename.  So ideally you'd just run the import and it'd work.
I had a thread on this previously - http://yabb.JRiver.com/interact/index.php?topic=89280.0

the consensus seemed to be it was a particle related problem, I haven't ripped many box sets recently (been holding off from that in favour of the rest of the discs in case a less time consuming solutions presents itself in the meantime) so haven't yet tried the approach MrC suggested.

nevertheless a dry run mode would be a useful thing imv (or a "here's what I'm going to do, commit or abort?" dialog though the data in that could get overwhelming and it's a bit of niche use case)
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