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get movie info without over writing genres?
« on: January 11, 2014, 10:16:36 pm »
ive now got all my keywords back over to genres, and i'd like to do a full library Get movie & TV info to fill in all of the imdb keywords for my videos.

When i tried on one of my files (i made a multiple genre entry of Action; Testing) and then ran Get Movie & TV info and it overwrote my genres.
Anyway around this?
Thanks in advance
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2014, 10:57:34 pm »
Create a temporary library field (genre.temp) and copy you current data over, do your get movie info and then move the genre.temp field to genre.
Not the answer you were looking for I am sure but it is a never fail work around when wanting to not have a field overwritten.
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2014, 11:02:51 pm »
Thanx Scolex

Before i dive...i could of sworn there was an option somewhere that stated... do not overwrite tags? or fill tags that are empty only?  i dunno why but something in my memory is telling me so.
am i sadly mistaken?
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2014, 11:08:52 pm »
There is an auto-import rule which will write tags to files during import (this is disabled by default) but I don't think there is anything to prevent "Get Movie & TV Info" from filling out your Genre tags.
 
I would like to see the "Get Movie & TV Info" settings expanded, as I really don't like that it fills in the Keyword field.
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2014, 11:09:29 pm »
When you select more than one item, the Get Movie & TV Info Diag has an option "Allow overwrite of existing values" but it is all or nothing.
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2014, 11:13:25 pm »
Thats what i was looking for "Allow overwrite of existing values"
so in theory.. if i untick this, i can select 20,000 files and do get info, and only keywords will get filled in...correct? (providing all other tags are filled in to my liking)
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2014, 11:55:14 pm »
....might be best to try it on two but I assume it will overwrite all or none, not blank (which is what I think you want).
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Re: get movie info without over writing genres?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2014, 01:47:30 am »
Works Perfect
Thanks Guys!
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