CaptainSpalding Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Is there any way to get automatic listing of files on the unraid? I have my server mostly offline, so it would be nice if it would send an scheduled update to Dropbox or some other online service. This is just that I don't need to power it up to see them. Link to comment
jpimlott Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 What files are you reffering too. I use MYMovies for TV and Movies that are stored on the server. It even has an iphone/android app so what you have. It also takes care of metadata and fan art. Great program. John Link to comment
Influencer Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I had written a script that makes a zero byte copy of all files and directories... It could be used in the way you describe but it would need to be modified to skip files already cataloged. But the extra logic might actually take longer than recreating the zero byte file... I used it to recreate my file structure for testing without the chance of data loss in case of a nasty bug. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Maybe MyMovies would be my solution for now. Can it scrape the titles off from filenames or do I have to manually add them one-by-one ( )? Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 MyMovies database is missing about 300 of my titles... I cannot understand why some many users are satisfied with that. Link to comment
batt01 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Media Center Master can generate a html file of your Tv and Movies. Function is called export collection to html. It is a good program to manage your media. Find titles that are missing metadata, fix incorrect matches, download tons of backdrops. http://www.mediacentermaster.com/wiki/index.php?title=Export_collection_to_an_HTML_list... Link to comment
sureguy Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 MyMovies database is missing about 300 of my titles... I cannot understand why some many users are satisfied with that. I don't use MyMovies, but scraping can be problematic if you don't follow a generally accepted naming scheme. I've been trying to follow a naming scheme like the following Movie Title (xxxx) where xxxx is the release year. If you have extra information in the folder name, or if you don't sort your movies into folders and have extra information in the file name it will probably confuse the scraper. I don't worry too much about the file names in the folder as XBMC and most scrapers that I've used look at the folder name and use that for metadata, assuming they're configured properly. YMMV, but that's probably the most accepted approach to getting your files scraped properly. Link to comment
Helmonder Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 MyMovies database is missing about 300 of my titles... I cannot understand why some many users are satisfied with that. Not with me... Unless you are naming your movie directories in a weird way ? Link to comment
Helmonder Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Is there any way to get automatic listing of files on the unraid? I have my server mostly offline, so it would be nice if it would send an scheduled update to Dropbox or some other online service. This is just that I don't need to power it up to see them. Well... it might be a little commando style, but you could create a daily crontab that does: ls -R /mnt/user > /boot/myfiles.txt Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Well... it might be a little commando style, but you could create a daily crontab that does: ls -R /mnt/user > /boot/myfiles.txt That would be the optimum solution if it would send the file to Dropbox upon power-down, it would help if the thing would not power-up for some reason. And the files would be browsable offline too. Link to comment
Helmonder Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Well... it might be a little commando style, but you could create a daily crontab that does: ls -R /mnt/user > /boot/myfiles.txt That would be the optimum solution if it would send the file to Dropbox upon power-down, it would help if the thing would not power-up for some reason. And the files would be browsable offline too. That's doable.... Just install the dropbox plugin and copy the file listing onto its directory, it will auto-replicate to your dropbox account and allways be there... Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Well... it might be a little commando style, but you could create a daily crontab that does: ls -R /mnt/user > /boot/myfiles.txt That would be the optimum solution if it would send the file to Dropbox upon power-down, it would help if the thing would not power-up for some reason. And the files would be browsable offline too. That's doable.... Just install the dropbox plugin and copy the file listing onto its directory, it will auto-replicate to your dropbox account and allways be there... Sweeeeet! But the autoupdate of that file still needs this crontab? Link to comment
Helmonder Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Nope. The crontab runs the ls command each day and writes it in the dropbox dir. Dropbox then takes care of uploading into the cloud. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Wow, thanks! Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 My problem seems to be that the dropbox plugin is only for the latest beta version of unraid. Link to comment
Helmonder Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 That is true for most plugins, try it out, v5 is very stable. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 I have been thinking of upgrading, but I have also been a little insecure about the process. Can I make a backup of the existing flash card? I have two unraid licenses, so I could use that other one to a backup. Link to comment
Helmonder Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Yes sir.... Just copy your flashdrive contents, then upgrade the flashdrive to V5 ... Should someting go wrong (which I do not expect) then just restore your flashdrive and reboot again. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Thanks, I will try! Link to comment
jeff.lebowski Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 If you (or anyone else) is still looking, I've been using STG Folder Print for years to make list of folder contents. It can export: .txt, .csv, .html, .xls, .jpg, .png, and .pdf. It's not automatic, but easy enough to load a folder, then click scan each time the folder is updated. Then just overwrite the previous saved list. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 28, 2012 Author Share Posted December 28, 2012 If you (or anyone else) is still looking, I've been using STG Folder Print for years to make list of folder contents. It can export: .txt, .csv, .html, .xls, .jpg, .png, and .pdf. It's not automatic, but easy enough to load a folder, then click scan each time the folder is updated. Then just overwrite the previous saved list. Wow, looks like a nice app. Thanks! Link to comment
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