Ember Media Manager

what release of ember you are using?

105

I also have backup copiues of 101, 102, 103, and 104. I tried 101 and 103 to see if the behavior was the same and it was, and I know it worked before, so I assumed this was an errant setting somewhere.

IMDB Changed layout some days ago ... the version that currently work is r1105
http://www.embermm.com/tab/show/embermm

105 is the version I am using (I mentioned 103 and 101 because I tried those, as well).

It obviously isn't settings or anything, so I guess I need to either find another app or do them all manually.

Are you running a backup copy of EMM too? I mean, are you using EMM's database from the backup?
That could cause problems. I suggest you to try a clean copy of 1105. It has to work.

When I used the old copies to test the problem, I used them in a different folder, which has since been deleted. I also tried deleting 105 and unpacking it again.

I took more careful note of the behavior last night... when I do an automatic scan (of any filter type, for any data type), it moves normally through the symbols it picked up data for on the initial scan and then it scans rapidly through the rest without checking them. If I right-click the file and re-scrape manually, it almost always finds the right movie on the first try and lets me get everything.

I again will try deleting 105 and unpacking it again to see if the behavior is any different.

This is very odd.

Did you also make sure that you choosed the same file naming convention for info/poster/fanart, that you have in your folders created by the previous EMM instance? (But automatic scrape should still work, just creating additional files).

Hmmmm... very strange...
"it moves normally through the symbols it picked up data for on the initial scan and then it scans rapidly through the rest without checking them." - Can you alaborate this? What do you mean on symbols for example?

Are the initial scan picking up the info and images correctly about those 400 movies?
Are you having any special chars in any of the folders?

First of all, I deleted my Ember folder from the desktop again, extracted the files, ran it and now it is working properly. It is in the "P's" now and is pulling information in as it should. I don't know why deleting it this time made a difference, since I had done that once already, before my initial post on the subject.

In case this is something reported again int he future, I still should answer your questions...

I'm sorry for saying symbols, I had just answered a work email, where I test software for stock market analysis, and had been discussing a bug relating to stock symbols. I meant movies.

When I say it moved normally, it took 1-3 seconds per movie with complete information (it had already downloaded the information for these films). For the movies without poster or fanart, it processed 1-15 films per second, just skipping them.

My naming convention looks like this:

Folder -
A.Christmas.Story.(1983)

Files -
A.Christmas.Story(1983).fanart.jpg
A.Christmas.Story(1983).jpg
A.Christmas.Story(1983).m4v
A.Christmas.Story(1983).nfo
A.Christmas.Story(1983).tbn
A.Christmas.Story(1983)-trailer.mp4