Scraping folder on mounted drive

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Hi all, I checked a few dozens posts about scraping gone wrong and tried a lot of the solutions in those, but I still can’t solve this.

I have a single source for my tv shows, from a mounted drive.
The drive is mounted in /mnt/videos and there is a single directory there, Shows
Within that directory, I have a subdirectory for each show, a subdirectory for each season, and finally the episodes in there with the SXXEXX format within the file name

The structure is

├── show1
│   └── Season.04
│       ├── show1.S04E01.1080p.HEVC.x265-.mkv
│       ├── show1.S04E02.1080p.HEVC.x265-.mkv
│       ├── show1.S04E03.1080p.HEVC.x265-.mkv
└── show2
    ├── Season.06
    │   ├── S06E08 show2-.1080p.mkv
    │   ├── show2-S06E02-mp4
    │   ├── show2-S06E03-mp4
    │   ├── show2-S06E04-mp4
    └── Season.08
        ├── show2.S08E01.1080p.HEVC.x265-.mkv
        └── show2.S08E02.1080p.HEVC.x265-.mkv

When I read all the posts around the forum, I got that I have to use the parent directory of shows (/mnt/video) as source, and then make sure that the option “this folder contains a single show” is unticked.
Even when I do that, I still get an unrelated show associated to the root directory “shows”

Any idea how to further troubleshoot this?

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Navigate to this bogus show in the “TV Shows” library view and context menu, then select “information” (or if your remote has it just click the info button). Once there, highlight the selection to the “refresh” button (this may be off screen until you navigate right a bit). With that highlighted it should show the file path of where it scanned in that entry. What is that file path?

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You shouldn’t use the parent directory of the Shows folder as the source, you should use the Shows folder as the source. If you use the parent directory, Kodi things “Shows” is the name of a TV show it should try and scrape.

As darwindesign said, if you give us the path the bogus show has, we can probably confirm what you’re using and get you using the right source folder.

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ok I am embarrassed to say that I solved it with a combination of clicking here and there and playing with the ‘this folder contains a single show’ and the “prevent this directory from being scanned” and now I can’t reproduce it. Right now everything works.

That said, @pkscout the parent folder (/shared/video) is mounted via NFS (to /mnt/video). Should I add /shared/video/shows as source instead?

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If you have a file path that is /mnt/video/shows/show1 then the mount point is correct and the Kodi source should be pointed to /mnt/video/shows so it is scraping just the folders inside of “shows” and not trying to match “shows” as a series itself.