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Hi, I have 600 movies on my Hub and  I am connecting it thru wireless adaptor. So to work with different templates and Movie sheets it will take lot of time to generate the movie sheets etc. on the hub.

So,  I wrote a bat to get all the files in to a text file (when I ran this on the Hub, it generated all file list in a text file…all xml, .movies, .tgmd, .jpgs etc). So in my laptop I used another Bat utility to create all these files from the text content. So In my laptop, i have all the files (0 byte files with the same name and extension as on Hub). My plan is to generate different movie sheets, sparesheets, thumbs etc from the local copy using ThumbGen and then move these generated files to HUB to save time. But ThumbGen is failing when i try to generate moviesheets or any other files using the thumgen on the local files (0 byte files).

Could you please let me know if Thumbgen can not create moviesheets out of 0 byte movie files. I got this Idea after seeing the Test Folders that Theme creators provides in the Themes, where the movie is 0 bytes or dummy.  Should I need any specific file (other than the original movie file) to generate these information thru ThumbGen(?)

I know I am not sounding clear, please let me know if you need more information to answer this? Thanks!

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Well, if the file you generated is a 0 byte file, then Thumbgen probably doesn’t see it a a video file since what you are generating is just a “file”.

Also, you really shouldn’t need to do this.  Even over a wireless network, Thumbgen shouldn’t take any longer to generate the moviesheets than it does if they were on you local drive.   All Thumbgen does is collect the data for each file, then when it generates the data it’s only copying a couple of MB’s to the HUB.  Even on a slow network connection you may only gain a couple sec’s per file.

But if this is the way you are going, when you make a dummy video file, it has to be an actual video file that contains some video info.   A blank file with just the extension changed will not work.