Using my 30 years of IT.......map a drive, and then in DOS attrib *.* -H /s

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I am not sure if you want to change CMC/CME to see and process hidden files or if I should manually change them all

I am not in the Beta group yet :-) yes please. Circled in Red, you can see how I found the hidden file. After my post on it successfully importing the discless movie, I noticed that the xml was named (2006) so wondering why I tried to change it back to (2005) but it wouldn't.......leading me to disc...

OMG....I think I found the problem with the mymovies.xml files
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..they are being made as hidden files !!!!! CMC isn't seeing them either (but now I changed this new PC to show them.....)

Update....my manually generated mymovies.xml got me a lot further. Once I changed the setting in CMC to import the xml, It then imported my test movie (no image as expected) and made the txt file. (this PLAYS fine) CME then downloaded the images (and they look OK as far as I can tell) But CME isn't ...

OK, quick update 1) I have completely changed all my media paths to \\tigger and reloaded both server and client with no change in behaviour (no External Server Credentials AND no mymovies xml files being created) 2) As you suggested, I setup a new standalone copy of mymovies on a dummy account and ...

Cough, Cough....well.....I already setup a standalone version (but linked to my account) and downloaded all the titles from the online service (three times, just don't ask hahaha)....I only mention this because...yes, the External Server Credentials seem to function correctly. When I have a free min...

Its an export of my entire collection from MyMovies (File->Export->To XML) I thought at first I could simply edit the paths in that and reimport, but there's no corresponding "import XML" so I am editing the paths in mymovies, one by one. I was hoping that fixing all the paths in mymovies ...

BTW, it is this export of XML that I am searching in notepad to find all the "bad" paths

I am currently stuck on 26 seasons of "The Bill", someone has adjusted the TV Series and all my disc links are messed up....locking it now, but it was like 100 episodes per season so...sigh

Perfect.... I did a quick look through and the XML I have for my entire collection from doing the File->Export->XML File seems to be in perfectly the same format apart from the very first line (which I can add easily). So it would be tedious to make all the files, but possible. Just to check, these ...