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== Check file names ==<br />
The most common cause for something to be missing from a library scan, or to have scanned incorrectly, is if the file name of the video isn't named correctly. On problematic files you may wish to double check the '''[[Adding videos to the library/Naming files|naming]]''' once again, or even try alternative names or include the year the work was made.<br />
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== Fixing individual videos ==<br />
{{see also|Updating or removing videos}}<br />
After adding new video files, if you find that the information is incorrect, select the incorrect entry and press {{keypress|i}} to bring up the movie information and then select "'''Refresh'''". From here you can also do a manual title search lookup. Sometimes using a partial title in the manual search will help when a normal search brings up nothing.<br />
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== Tools ==<br />
When you need to edit/change either just one entry, or hundreds of entries, there are several tools that can make this task easier:<br />
* [[Add-on:XWMM]] - Can be used to edit library entires from a web browser.<br />
* [[Add-on:Missing Movie Scanner]] - An XBMC add-on that will search your video sources and list all movies not scanned in your library.<br />
* [[:Category:Library managers]] - {{editor note|needs to be made into a nice list with summaries, rather than using a category}}<br />
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== NFO files ==<br />
{{main|NFO files}}<br />
Another valid way of making sure your scraper finds its way to correct information for your newly added media is by the use of '''[[NFO files]]'''. Nfo files can be used to provide data for a movie, a TV show, or influence the search behavior of scrapers (e.g by pointing it to a predefined URL).<br />
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== Finding missing videos ==<br />
If you have a small library then you can probably just use file mode and see what videos don't have metadata (thumbnails, for example). For larger video collections, see [[#Tools]] such as [[Add-on:Missing Movie Scanner]].<br />
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Since v12 "Frodo", XBMC will record what video files didn't get matched in the [[xbmc.log]] file, even if debugging is turned off. Keep in mind that the xbmc.log file resets each time you start XBMC; xbmc.log will contain information from the most recent time XBMC was ran, and xbmc.old.log will contain the previous time XBMC was ran. You can quickly find the entries where a movie wasn't matched by searching for <code>"it won't be added to the library"</code>. You can extract a list with all paths with the following command:<br />
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<pre> grep "won't be added" -i xbmc.log | cut -d"'" -f2 > not_indexed.lst</pre><br />
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== Adding or excluding file types ==<br />
You can add or exclude additional file types/extensions when scanning files into the library via an [[advancedsettings.xml]] file and the [[advancedsettings.xml#<videoextensions>|<videoextensions> tag]]:<br />
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[[Category:Video Library]]<br />
[[Category:XBMC Manual]]<br />
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