Duplicate Movies

[Aline Braunbeck]

Bablua bubbly and childish young man, is an aspiring chef who always prays to God whenever he gets the chance. Manu, who is a very big gangster and an exact duplicate of Bablu, is meanwhile getting chased by the police. He eventually gets caught, but swiftly gets his way out of getting arrested.

On his way to a job interview, Bablu meets Sonia Kapoor, a charming and beautiful hotel catering manager, in a cab. They argue over who should get the cab, but eventually figure out that they are going to the same place; Bablu is going to a job interview with Sonia. Bablu eventually gets hired as the head chef at the hotel after showing off his cooking skills, and meets the hotel's owner who has a crush on Sonia, even though Sonia doesn't reciprocate his feelings. Throughout the film, the manager tries his hardest to get Bablu and Sonia broken up, and Bablu fired. As Sonia and Bablu continue to work with each other, Bablu falls in love with her.

One day, when Bablu takes Sonia out for lunch trying to express his feelings, he gets arrested after the police mistake him for Manu. Bablu is able to prove his true identity, but not before Manu hears of his duplicate. Bablu is given an identity card by the police, and goes home happily only to be met by Manu and his goons. Manu tries to kill Bablu and take his place, but Manu threatens him that they have to switch places if he wants him and his loved ones to survive, forcing Bablu to unwillingly accept.

Due to his womanizing nature, Manu beings to flirt with Sonia, posing as Bablu, who notices that his behavior has changed drastically, and rejects Manu. Manu becomes extremely frustrated and continues to try and flirt with her. At the same time, Lily, Manu's girlfriend, also tries to flirt with Bablu, posing as Manu, after falling in love with his "new" personality. Bablu rejects her as well, since he is madly in love with Sonia. Regardless, Bablu starts teaching all of Manu's gang members, including Lily, about morals.

One day, Manu arrives at Bablu's house, still posing as him, and sees that the light is on. He thinks that the real Bablu is inside and starts calling out for him, but is surprised to see that it is Bablu's mother. She thinks Bablu is drunk since Manu who is posing as Bablu is calling out for Bablu, so she scolds him and tells him to go to sleep. Soon Bablu and Manu switch back since the police have given up on looking for Manu. Manu decides he wants to kill Bablu and calls Bablu's mother and Sonia to an abandoned and rundown location so that Sonia and Bablu can get married, trapping them. Meanwhile, Bablu realizes he has lost a lot of his money, and thinking Manu did it, locates him, falling into Manu's trap as well. At the same exact time, the police have tracked down who they think is Manu, but is really Bablu, and follow him to the rundown location. The police arrive before Bablu, but Sonia intervenes and tells them they have the wrong guy, thinking Manu is Bablu. All of a sudden, the real Bablu arrives at the location and tells the police that the other man is Manu. Causing more confusion, Manu reappears and says he is Bablu. However, Bablu's mom says that Bablu was a big wrestler before he came to Mumbai and she says whoever pulls her to their respective side is the real Bablu. Bablu and Manu begin pulling, and when Bablu sees his mother in pain, he lets go, letting Manu win. Manu believes this proves he is "Bablu", thinking now the real Bablu will get shot and killed, but Bablu's mother reveals that the real Bablu would never let his mother be in pain. Manu reveals that he has a gun, and tries shooting Bablu, but before he can do that, Lily shoots him dead from behind. She reveals that because Bablu taught her how to be a good person, she decided to save the day. Regardless of Lily being in love with Bablu, Bablu and Sonia get married, ending the film on a good note.

The songs featured in the film are composed by Anu Malik with lyrics penned by Javed Akhtar. The songs were rendered by Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kumar Sanu, and Udit Narayan. The songs "Ek Sharaarat (La Lai Lai)" and "Ladna Jhagadna" became hit songs, while "Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam" became one of the blockbuster songs of the year.

So, I deleted one download and then "Delete from library..." which prompted me to Hide the movie. I did that and, guess what? The duplicate vanished, as well. But the new one is downloading. We will see if it appears in my library when this is finished.

It turns out that to remove the duplicates (which are showing as being available for download from the cloud), I first select the new version and then Delete from Library. On the following dialog, click on Hide Movie. Finally, go back into the Account settings, Manage Hidden Purchases and UNHIDE the title.

So, I deleted/hid these movies and I guess I can only watch the downloaded versions. I will have to check to see if I can still "see" the streaming version and if I can still "play" the downloaded versions.

I found another (now locked) post that described the download issue: you have to disable both HDR and multi-channel audio to be able to download to an external HDD. But then, why would I want to stream that content to my Apple TV?

I guess the answer is: no more downloaded content from Apple. That by itself would be OK, except that I have a bunch of playlists from my movies (e.g. Marvel Universe in released order). But guess what? You cannot make playlists from iCloud purchased movies.

I have recently switched over to LibreELEC from OSMC (Raspberry Pi 4) and have had no issues so far. Now though, when I wanted to scrape my movie library which is shared via SMB from my PC, I encountered an annoying issue. The scraping works fine and everything is added, though it is added TWICE! I have two entries of every movie title, and both entries work and will play the same file...

When it scrapes, looking out the "progress notification", it seems to first scrape once and get everything, and then re-run the scraping, scraping everything once more! This is really odd as it works fine for my TV Shows which are shared via the same SMB but on another path...

This makes kind of sense because I used to have a source that ended in double front slash (//) by mistake. Though I edited this and changed it to single front slash as the double front slash caused files not in the root of /Movies to not be scraped. Is there any manual way of deleting this source as it is not appearing in the UI? It appears to be correct in sources.xml (single front slash)

I got rid of all the duplicates (of which all had .../Movies//... in their c22 column (Path to file)). After this I simply transfered the modified .db file to my Pi and replaced the existing one. Now I have one of every movie and updating the library does not bring back the duplicates!

Thanks for the help everyone! I hope this helps someone else with a similar issue in the future. My query for deleting the duplicated entries was rather simple as, fortunately for me, they were all one after another. If they were all mixed up and I would have had to write a query that detects and deletes entries with // in the path, that would have become a bit more complicated

Doesn't the // indicate an NFS path? Or, is it SMB? Anyway, / is for one of them and // is for the other. Or, maybe it is just the way my data paths are set up; one is set to the entire drive and the other is set to a directory on the drive.

I can access smb on a windows machine using \\COMPUTER-NAME

maybe that is what u mean? The double frontslash in my case was purely accidental. smb://COMPUTER-NAME I think is identical to \\COMPUTER-NAME

Looking at the original sources.xml shared in post #5 I notice the shares have spaces in their names and the paths are not quoted or escaped. I'm not sure how Kodi handles this, but it might be something to look into.

In theory you could use Reports to show all episodes, start it collapsed and organized by episode title.. most entries will now end with" : 1 " at the end of the entry.. if two shows have the same title the entry will show have " : 2 " (or more depending on the episodes that share that title) at the end.

It sucks but its been two years since I originally switched from Plex to Emby and brought up this concern.... two years later and it's still not easy to just display duplicates... oh and now I'm running two servers to achieve what just one should be able to do.

Howdy! I was actually trying to follow your first bit of advice. I fire up the reports and organize the episodes by name, but I feel a bit stupid. I am not following the part where you said "ends with :1" Where exactly am I suppose to see that? Curious to see if this helps me identify duplicate TV episodes.

I've noticed a few times in one season folder for a show I may have 01x01.mkv and 01x01.mp4 as emby auto organized it for me. I had assumed that the emby auto organize would not copy over a new episode if it already was present, turns out if the new file name's extension is different from what is already there, emby just goes right on ahead and moves it. Bummer for me, so trying to see how to find all the goof ups in the collection.

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