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Title: Why does MC import it's own sidecar files?
Post by: audunth on November 05, 2010, 02:35:32 pm
When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and choose Media Center -> Import, how come the sidecar files that MC itself has created for earlier imported files are imported into the library? I don't want those in my library because then the number of files in my library doesn't reflect how many media files I actually have. Is there a reason to have them in the library?

Now I know that once I delete them from the library, they get ignored the next time (unless I choose not to ignore items previously deleted from library), but every time I import a video file a sidecar gets created and then the next time I import that folder the new sidecar files gets imported too. Is this a bug or is it anyway to prevent it? I don't want to disable data support, because then when a video file gets imported as data, which occationally has happened (although not in a while), I can't find them.

I also know I can set the file types to be imported for Auto import, but this concerns when I right click and import from Explorer.
Title: Re: Why does MC import it's own sidecar files?
Post by: audunth on November 09, 2010, 04:30:24 pm
Anyone??
Title: Re: Why does MC import it's own sidecar files?
Post by: Yaobing on November 10, 2010, 09:04:53 am
MC sees these files as documents and imports them.  I think you are right.  We should skip these files.
Title: Re: Why does MC import it's own sidecar files?
Post by: Lasse_Lus on November 10, 2010, 09:14:28 am
why not exclude them from the view instead  :) or from the topfilter,
-[File Type]=[xml] or similair

i want the sidecars in my db  :P
Title: Re: Why does MC import it's own sidecar files?
Post by: audunth on November 11, 2010, 08:30:44 am
Why do you want the sidecar files in the db? It just makes the db bigger and probably slower if you have a really big db...