I have a title that was scanned into the library and had the correct Information screen, Extended Information screen, proper artwork and proper thumbnail in the Movie wall. Then I added it as a favorite and maybe played around with some of the artwork options in the skin (Estuary MOD v2 with Kodi 18 nightly) - I cannot recall exactly. At some point the thumbnail on the movie wall changed from the movie poster to a random scene from the movie (still frame in the thumbnail). I do not want this and wanted to get the thumbnail back. And I noticed when I went into the Information screen it said "unavailable" and all the info on that screen was blank. If I went into the Extended Information screen then the artwork and posters and all the info was correct.
The file name (I use the option for file names not folder name) matched identical to TMDB. I choose Manage->Remove From Library and it was gone. To try and fix it I did a Library Clean, and then Scanned the source for content. It picked it up again the same problematic way, with the still frame as the thumbnail and a blank Information screen. I then removed it from the library and cleaned it again. This time I renamed the folder and file name to a random movie that matches TMDB which is not in my library. I scanned it again and it STILL picked it up as the real movie and had the same still frame as the thumbnail. It's as if the data is cached somewhere. But I don't understand where, and can't understand how it say it as the real movie even though I renamed the file and folder!
I'm at a total loss on how to fix this and was thinking of completely removing Kodi and starting over, but I figure I better learn what is going on and fix it the right way, because if this was to happen again I cannot keep starting over from scratch.![Smile]( "Smile")
Can someone please let me know what is going on and how I can correct it? And if I still can't figure it out based on your instructions, what is the best way to clear out the library and make sure I am starting from scratch with a rescan and nothing cached etc, because that may be better than uninstalling and completely reconfiguring my skins and add-ons etc. Like is there some sort of "rebuild database" command, or is that the same as remove the source and re-indexing, or might there still be cached data around from that? It is so confusing because at first it had everything correct, then somehow I must have changed something and from that point no matter what I tried I could not get the Information screen and thumbnail back.
Thank you.
The file name (I use the option for file names not folder name) matched identical to TMDB. I choose Manage->Remove From Library and it was gone. To try and fix it I did a Library Clean, and then Scanned the source for content. It picked it up again the same problematic way, with the still frame as the thumbnail and a blank Information screen. I then removed it from the library and cleaned it again. This time I renamed the folder and file name to a random movie that matches TMDB which is not in my library. I scanned it again and it STILL picked it up as the real movie and had the same still frame as the thumbnail. It's as if the data is cached somewhere. But I don't understand where, and can't understand how it say it as the real movie even though I renamed the file and folder!
I'm at a total loss on how to fix this and was thinking of completely removing Kodi and starting over, but I figure I better learn what is going on and fix it the right way, because if this was to happen again I cannot keep starting over from scratch.
Can someone please let me know what is going on and how I can correct it? And if I still can't figure it out based on your instructions, what is the best way to clear out the library and make sure I am starting from scratch with a rescan and nothing cached etc, because that may be better than uninstalling and completely reconfiguring my skins and add-ons etc. Like is there some sort of "rebuild database" command, or is that the same as remove the source and re-indexing, or might there still be cached data around from that? It is so confusing because at first it had everything correct, then somehow I must have changed something and from that point no matter what I tried I could not get the Information screen and thumbnail back.
Thank you.