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A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex
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Dropit skips files; shows destination as original folder despite associations set to temp folder #46

Closed chuccck closed 2 years ago

chuccck commented 2 years ago

Can't figure it out but Dropit does not recognize the associations folder setting to copy to the temp folder, it keeps trying to copy it to the same original folder. Note the G drive is a drivepool drive but that shouldn't matter.

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seanap commented 2 years ago

Looks like it isn't respecting the Destination Folder. In the first pic the "Destination" is the /original folder.

seanap commented 2 years ago

Is there a space between the ...audiobook \temp ?

chuccck commented 2 years ago

there is no space, just windows formatting between the k and \

i dont know why the destination is set to original when the associations is set to temp. cant figure it out

seanap commented 2 years ago

In Options > Various there are log files, anything in there?

chuccck commented 2 years ago

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seanap commented 2 years ago

Heh that's not very helpful.

It looks like you have the BookCopy profile selected for the AudiobookCopy association. Is the BookCopy profile active?

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Mine are named a little different, but I have two associations under one profile.

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chuccck commented 2 years ago

yeah i do

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seanap commented 2 years ago

Have you tried quitting DropIt and restarting it?

Mine is setup using network drives and anytime the drives disconnect then reconnect dropit no longer works (does nothing) and needs to be restarted. This isn't your issue since it is clearly doing something, but maybe a restart can re-associate the destination folder?

chuccck commented 2 years ago

yep no dice, ill try restarting the computer

chuccck commented 2 years ago

no change after a restart

seanap commented 2 years ago

The drivepool drive shouldn't be an issue (I'm using a MergerFS pool with no issues) but for testing can you recreate another test profile and use only local folders? Doesn't have to be anything fancy, maybe just set it up to copy a .txt file from one folder to another to make it easy.

From the settings you have provided nothing looks wrong, so I'm kinda stumped.

chuccck commented 2 years ago

shoot, that worked....

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chuccck commented 2 years ago

im going to reset the bookcopy profile with those local folders and see if it works with an audiofile now

chuccck commented 2 years ago

something is borked in the bookcopy profile:

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chuccck commented 2 years ago

i restored your from you backup settings

seanap commented 2 years ago

Are you finding that if you had a fresh install of Dropit and built up the profile/associations from scratch it works but if you use my supplied backup something is broken?

It's been a long time since I've updated dropit maybe a new release broke my old backup settings?

chuccck commented 2 years ago

i will try that. is there anything in the backup settings we have not done here other than the file associations?

seanap commented 2 years ago

Here are all my settings: image image image

chuccck commented 2 years ago

associations settings too please?

seanap commented 2 years ago

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chuccck commented 2 years ago

rebuilding it worked. do i want those text and covers to copy/move? i am not seeding

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seanap commented 2 years ago

After DropIt moves the files into the temp folder that mp3tag watches, I have mp3tag tag the files and it will export the cover to the new archive folder (that plex looks at). It also outputs a reader.txt and desc.txt but those are only used for booksonic.

You shouldn't need to copy any of those text and cover files since the cover will be readded and those txt files won't be used by anything.

chuccck commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your help. I need to step away from the computer for the day but I have questions on that automated process. Is there a better way to ask you then bogging your GitHub down with issues ?

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021, 9:05 AM seanap @.***> wrote:

After DropIt moves the files into the temp folder that mp3tag watches, I have mp3tag tag the files and it will export the cover to the new archive folder (that plex looks at). It also outputs a reader.txt and desc.txt but those are only used for booksonic.

You shouldn't need to copy any of those text and cover files since the cover will be readded and those txt files won't be used by anything.

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seanap commented 2 years ago

The automated process I have set up is for two things:

  1. To preserve seeding files so my originals are untouched
  2. To auto convert mp3's to a chapterized m4b

They are completely optional, for example you can just set up mp3tag to look at your original folder and process your books directly.

I don't mind reporting issues like you did here, this is very helpful for everyone that comes by in the future. For discussions feel free to open a new thread in the Discussions tab for this repo. You can also find me and other likeminded folks in the BookCamp discord server.