A long question for a confusing problem.
Windows 10 x64, Kodi 18.1
I may not be an expert with KODI, but I've been using it since Eden, so I've learned a few tricks to solve problems, but this one has me stumped.
I had a working 17.6 system which I upgraded to 18.1 a couple of weeks ago. Everything worked fine. I might mention that I keep all of my movies in their own folders on separate data drives. No RAID involved.
Yesterday I created a new Windows parent folder on one of my data drives. (The new folder was still included in the existing Source location.) I moved two movies (with their folders) into that folder. I also added a new movie. So, new folder, three movies. Update library, then run a clean operation. A piece of cake.
KODI did not see one of the moved files. I ran update again but no luck. I moved that movie to another drive that was not in the source path and re-ran Update Library. I moved it back with no luck.
I moved all three of the movies back in their original location. Now the two movies that had been moved appeared but the newly added one did not. At this point I noticed that a lot of movies ( (maybe 70 or 80)) were missing from the KODI library, all from this drive.
I tried copying some files (in Windows) to this drive and got some failures. I did a chkdsk on the drive and it was reported error-free. I ran some other check utilities but a few of them reported unnamed problems. So it appeared there might be a problem with a corrupted disk or corrupted files, even though the missing files played fine in VLC and MPC. Luckily, I keep a master copy of all my data files, and I also had a backup of the KODI database (as well as the metadata files from the individual movie folders) from a weeks earlier. I also had a spare 8TB drive, so I created a fresh copy of the suspect disk from the master and metadata files. No luck.
So I'm at the stage where I want to restore the KODI database. The question I have is should I do an Import using the KODI backup from a week ago, or use a restore from my backup program, which has the entire KODI folder (as well as the AppData folder for KODI)? I'm leaning to the complete backup, since the problem is confusing enough. Should I include both the KODI folder and the AppData entries for KODI? And finally, should I restore to the previous version (17.6), although that backup is about 6 weeks old?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Windows 10 x64, Kodi 18.1
I may not be an expert with KODI, but I've been using it since Eden, so I've learned a few tricks to solve problems, but this one has me stumped.
I had a working 17.6 system which I upgraded to 18.1 a couple of weeks ago. Everything worked fine. I might mention that I keep all of my movies in their own folders on separate data drives. No RAID involved.
Yesterday I created a new Windows parent folder on one of my data drives. (The new folder was still included in the existing Source location.) I moved two movies (with their folders) into that folder. I also added a new movie. So, new folder, three movies. Update library, then run a clean operation. A piece of cake.
KODI did not see one of the moved files. I ran update again but no luck. I moved that movie to another drive that was not in the source path and re-ran Update Library. I moved it back with no luck.
I moved all three of the movies back in their original location. Now the two movies that had been moved appeared but the newly added one did not. At this point I noticed that a lot of movies ( (maybe 70 or 80)) were missing from the KODI library, all from this drive.
I tried copying some files (in Windows) to this drive and got some failures. I did a chkdsk on the drive and it was reported error-free. I ran some other check utilities but a few of them reported unnamed problems. So it appeared there might be a problem with a corrupted disk or corrupted files, even though the missing files played fine in VLC and MPC. Luckily, I keep a master copy of all my data files, and I also had a backup of the KODI database (as well as the metadata files from the individual movie folders) from a weeks earlier. I also had a spare 8TB drive, so I created a fresh copy of the suspect disk from the master and metadata files. No luck.
So I'm at the stage where I want to restore the KODI database. The question I have is should I do an Import using the KODI backup from a week ago, or use a restore from my backup program, which has the entire KODI folder (as well as the AppData folder for KODI)? I'm leaning to the complete backup, since the problem is confusing enough. Should I include both the KODI folder and the AppData entries for KODI? And finally, should I restore to the previous version (17.6), although that backup is about 6 weeks old?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.