I’ve really had this issue since back in RaspBMC but files with an ’ or similar symbol in it are often not found through nfs. For example, if I have a file named “Mister Rogers’ Revenge” or even worse “Girls’ Night” (it gets even worse if it just ends in a ’ like Decendants’ or something like that) it simply isn’t found when importing media. I have to rename the file, remove the ’ and then it finds it just fine. The weird thing is that its then often displayed correctly in the file list (e.g. I rename “Girls’ Night” which doesn’t work to “Girls Night” which does work it then shows up perfectly fine as “Girls’ Night” in OSMC) it just doesn’t import them.
Is there a way to enable it to just load the files no questions asked or is there a way this could be fixed? I don’t always check my show list or even always pay attention to the numbering (or i just cleaned my list and a new episode is skipped I don’t know in general) which is really annoying because you either miss out on the plot or have to manually change everything to make it work…
This same issue goes for other symbols like " or & and such as well but less frequent then the single ‘.
It also happens with entire shows containing a ’ for example Gamers’ guide to pretty much everything (i think thats what the shows name was) wasn’t found at all until I changed it into Gamers guide without the '.
Hope someone has a fix for this.
Running the latest OSMC, no debug logs for it, it just happens at random (but very very often so shouldn’t be hard to replicate).
This is an issue pertaining specifically to Kodi and the scrapers it uses. OSMC has no bearing on this behavior. You should look for resolution on Kodi forums but, I fear your only solution will be to remove these “symbols” from your filenames. Use of them in filenames is not really considered to be “best practices” under any operating system.
Very true, but auto renamers scrape the info from show databases so if the show or episode is named as such it will auto rename it like that 
guess there is no solution for it then…
I’m fairly certain that most auto renamers should have a method to configure that. I can’t believe someone who writes such code would lock users into such a poor behavior as using such symbols in filenames.
They actually do, and refuse to change it “since its a kodi script issue”, and like you said so yourself, Kodi will most likely do nothing about it either.
And no unfortunately this one does not have an option to omit the ’ char sigh
Quote from the dev
[quote]The fault is in the script that Kodi is using. You need to approach that developer and ask them to fix their code to handle a simple ’ char.
Good luck. [/quote]
Do you happen to have a link to wherever kodi devs hang out so I can make a thread?
They have an entire forum. Google is your friend.
And what happens if the show name should have a : in it. That will work fine on linux, but not on windows. Ask the developer who is refusing to fix his script about that… The Kodi developers are trying to use naming conventions that work for all OSes. Looks like the developer of the script you are using doesn’t care about conventions.
I think : are omitted by the script…
The explanation I got afterwards was as followed:
Although your idea appears simple to implement, the fear is that it will introduce far deeper issues for the script, also where does it end, how many chars can get ignored before this idea breaks totally, therefore, this idea is not a recommended solution.
Thats what I got on the idea of adding an option you can check or uncheck for omitting ‘s in weird places or just by default and letting addons handle the proper name afterwards (which they do because if I name, example, girls’ night, girls night, it will show up as girls’ night in kodi after it finds the file in the database).