JavLuv JAV Browser

Bug report - I've got an install on a networked laptop that gets all its content from the server PC. This install insists on giving me the "overwrite better quality video" popup every time I scan something. I'm forced to manually refuse every one, sometimes dozens of videos. It won't complete the process of getting new file and actress data unless I refuse every request to overwrite. Very frustrating!

It's the latest build, I have "moving/renaming" unchecked, and I have reinstalled at least once.

What else can I do to fix this? I have a second laptop that does not have this problem. Thanks, still love this program!!!
 
weppin said:
Bug report - I've got an install on a networked laptop that gets all its content from the server PC. This install insists on giving me the "overwrite better quality video" popup every time I scan something. I'm forced to manually refuse every one, sometimes dozens of videos. It won't complete the process of getting new file and actress data unless I refuse every request to overwrite. Very frustrating!

It's the latest build, I have "moving/renaming" unchecked, and I have reinstalled at least once.

What else can I do to fix this? I have a second laptop that does not have this problem. Thanks, still love this program!!!
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This is not so much a bug as a currently unsupported feature. JavLuv stores quite a bit of metadata locally, and so moving between two computers sharing a network drive isn't really supported. I've got an old task on my list to allow users to share that metadata on a shared network drive as well, which would fix this issue, but I don't know when I'll be able to get to this.

Technically, you can fix this by copying that hidden AppData settings folder from a primary to a secondary laptop, and always do your editing on the primary machine, but obviously this isn't very convenient.
 
TmpGuy said:
Japanese movie titles can viewed / edited in the movie detail view by clicking the small JP toggle button in the top right

Are you asking for a way in English mode to display Japanese titles and actress names in the browser view? Because that's about the only thing missing. You can currently see Japanese text in both detail views in English mode.

To be honest, I've been considering removing Japanese mode for a while now, as it's never gotten a translation (I originally wanted to localize all program text), and it's difficult to support due to finding enough sites I can scrape in Japanese. Let me know what you guys think about this. I could probably just add options to display Japanese titles or actress names in the browser view if anyone really wants that.
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Actually I can read English and a bit of Japanese. I used to sorting titles with video IDs and actresses with their English names, but keeping their Japanese Name at the end. Because it's more difficult to me to realize the sorting order of Japanese, especially for Kanji.

At the very beginning of using JavLuv, I've started with English mode and feel unaccustomed with English titles and names. Then tried rescaning the database with Japanese. And I found there are way less actress and cover images scraped in Japanese mode than English mode.

Then I tried investigated the .nfo files. And I find actually we have Japanese title and actress name in the .nfo files of English mode in different tags. Like "originaltitle" and "Japanese name". So it inspired me having the idea of just keeping unify .nfo file. Maybe by this way, we can have complete scrapped images and choose between English/Japanese mode without rescan the database.

BTW, the manual editing images and titles is a excellent deisgn. Actually, I usually cannot relate many of actresses to their thumbnails form network databases. I often change many of them to my preferences.
 
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ericliu339 said:
Actually I can read English and a bit of Japanese. I used to sorting the titles with video IDs and English actressname, but keeping their Japanese Name at the end. Because it's more difficult to me to realize the sorting order of Japanese, especially for Kanji.

At the very beginning of using JavLuv, I've started with English mode and feel unaccustomed with English titles and names. Then tried rescaning the database with Japanese. And I found there are way less actress and cover images scrapped in Japanese mode than English mode.

Then I tried investigated the .nfo files. And I find actually we have Japanese title and actress name in the .nfo files of English mode. So it inspired me having the idea of just keeping unify .nfo file. Maybe by this way, we can have complete scrapped images and choose between English/Japanese mode without rescan the database.

BTW, the manual editing images and titles is a excellent deisgn. Actually, I usually cannot relate many of actresses to their thumbnails form network databases. I often change many of them to my preferences.
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It seems the metadata depend on the website it got scraped. I got the metadata from javdatabase and it does not include the japanese titles, but if you got the metadata from javlibrary you will get the japanese titles. In my case, it seems my VPN connection cannot bypass the cloudfare verification to scrape from javlibrary. It is unfortunate I cannot get the japanese metadata.
 
TmpGuy said:
This is not so much a bug as a currently unsupported feature. JavLuv stores quite a bit of metadata locally, and so moving between two computers sharing a network drive isn't really supported. I've got an old task on my list to allow users to share that metadata on a shared network drive as well, which would fix this issue, but I don't know when I'll be able to get to this.

Technically, you can fix this by copying that hidden AppData settings folder from a primary to a secondary laptop, and always do your editing on the primary machine, but obviously this isn't very convenient.
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Ok but I use JL networked on two different laptops - one Win 10 and one Win 11, if it matters - and only the Win 11 one is doing this consistently.

For the record, could you maybe add a sticky to the front of this thread that indicated the local folders where all pertinent data gets stored? Like actress images, too, and etc? I used to know but I've forgotten.
 
I had an external hdd go bad, it had edited nfo files on it. It was backed up before I scanned with JavLuv, so I lost the nfo files. Is there any way to have JavLuv save individual nfo files back out? Sorry if this has been asked before I can't find an answer, and thanks to the author for such a useful program.
 
JohnJr said:
I had an external hdd go bad, it had edited nfo files on it. It was backed up before I scanned with JavLuv, so I lost the nfo files. Is there any way to have JavLuv save individual nfo files back out? Sorry if this has been asked before I can't find an answer, and thanks to the author for such a useful program.
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The good news is that the nfo files are just a backup. JavLuv should still have all the metadata stored in the hidden AppData folder. I'm not really sure how to force JavLuv to re-export all the nfo files though. If any changes are made, then the nfo file should be regenerated.

One potential method might be to change a common genre name in settings, let it propogate, and then change it back. In theory, it should mark that metadata as changed and write them out again. Be patient, as it may take some time to do this. This is just a theoretical fix though. Maybe I'll add a feature that allows peole to restore from internal data more easily. But no promises on when that might be.

Another option is to rescan your files, but unfortunately, it will take a long time. In theory, if you have "restore from backuo" checked in settings, it's supposed to just do that, but for some reason it still tries to download from online, so that needs fixing too.

Best I can offer for now. Good luck!
 
TmpGuy said:
One potential method might be to change a common genre name in settings, let it propogate, and then change it back. In theory, it should mark that metadata as changed and write them out again. Be patient, as it may take some time to do this. This is just a theoretical fix though. Maybe I'll add a feature that allows peole to restore from internal data more easily. But no promises on when that might be.
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So I found I needed to create a blank .nfo file with the same name as the movie in order for it to write anything back out. Thanks!
 
is there a way to launch command line (powershell or cmd) something like this
javluv.exe -autoscan -autocloseafterdone

thanks
 
spazhead said:
@TmpGuy can you include javdb.com into the software, i find it has a lot of missing info that javlibrary does not have.
keep up the great work.
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From what I see most of the content is in Japanese. I'm not sure how much use that would be for English speakers.
 
Can't delete but I think that I resolved my issue. Please delete Mods. Cheers.
 
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If anyone knows the answer to this please respond. If TmpGuy knows a solution that would be great. In an earlier post I talked about the follwoing process. Appending a name/category or keyword to a bunch of files to help to find them with a Javluv search. For instance I have a folder with about 30 Nanami Nanase files. Many of these javluv doesn't find with its normal scraping process so I set 'generate metadata from local files/use movie filename as name. now if I append all of those files with --Nanami Nanase as far as I can tell if the program finds say, ABC-123, which I have appended with Nanami Nanase, but if the program has found that file on the net and it doesn't referance her, even though the file name has her name on it, because the program has found the filename elsewhere it does not recognize my name formatting. So, if I do a search for Nanami Nanase the search will only find the files according to the search results.. I think that I'm getting to convoluted, nothing new there. Lets give a specific example. I named RWK-217 to "RWK-217 --Airi Meiri" because they are in the video. When I do a scan Javluv finds RWK-217 so it doesn't defer back to generating metadata from local. The problem is that the nfo data that javluv finds does not referance them and so , even though the names are listed on the filename if I do a search for the name (Airi or Airi Meiri) neither search will bring up RWK-217.. even though it is listed and I have appended the name.. Sorry for the long wandering question. Is there a way to search so that the search will include the appended filenames so that if I search for "Meiri" I will get everything that is either correctly referanced in the .nfo file or my adjusted filename? In the end this is a First-World problem and ultimately I can deal with it but if there's a solution that would be super-fantabulus. Cheers
 
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As I know, the search bar in JavLuv will find everything in the metadata/nfo files, whether it is the title, actress, ID, etc. If you had changed the title in the Javluv, you should be able to filter it using the search bar, unless you had renamed the filename of the movies (example from Windows Explorer). I have tried, the search bar cannot find/filter the name in the movie filenames.
 
lock_on said:
As I know, the search bar in JavLuv will find everything in the metadata/nfo files, whether it is the title, actress, ID, etc. If you had changed the title in the Javluv, you should be able to filter it using the search bar, unless you had renamed the filename of the movies (example from Windows Explorer). I have tried, the search bar cannot find/filter the name in the movie filenames.
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Thanks for responding Lock_ON, that is the problem because my appending to the original name does not reflect in the .nfo file so if, for example, I append a name to a title, then run a scan with Javluv and it finds the code on say javlibrary, it will download the .nfo file for that filename and when you do a search it will query the .nfo file so whether I've appended the file name or not is irrelevant because the program is searching the .nfo file with respect to the query. I think, but I'm not totally sure, that if I append the name and javluv doesn't find a match online and uses the 'generate metadata from local files' I "think" that then if you did a search for the appended name you would get a hit. I haven't played with this enough to be sure of that and I'm only going on a hunch. In any case what I am trying to accomplish is that when I do a search in javluv, not only will it query the .nfo file but also the words I have appended. Here's another example, I have Thousands of files that I have appended the word GOKKUN to. Most of these will be found when Javluv scrapes, for example, javluv. Many of the .nfo files on javluv will not even have the word "Gokkun" as an integral part of the .nfo data. So, it will download the attached .nfo data and apply it to a given title. Now, when I search for "GOKKUN" even though I have appended that name to tons of files, unless the word is part of the .nfo file my search will not find any of those files. I am hoping to resolve this otherwise I have spent TONS of time appending all of these files for nothing. Ultimately I love Javluv and if I can't resolve this, well, no biggie, I'll deal with it. Cheers.
 
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