cleanonupdate does not work completely for tv shows

[pipsen]

cleanonupdate does not work completely for tv shows

[DaVukovic]

@Hitcher and @wutschel I somewhat agree. Especially on that comment:

You can for example also create an empty folder named after a TV show and do scan. The TV show will show up, but w/o any episodes.

But in that case, and I can also reproduce it, the user also removes the folder. So the folder doesn't exist anymore. What sense does it make to keep the tv show if the folder for it doesn't exist anymore?

I would completely agree if the folder would still exist, but that's not the case. Hence "cleanonupdate" should do what it's meant for....cleaning the database and remove the tv-show completely.

I can confirm that disabling "show empty tv shows" kind of solves that problem. But from my POV, if the folder doesn't exist anymore, there's no need to keep the tv-show at the library.

[pipsen]

Addtional Comment:
Disabling "show empty tv shows" just hides the problem - does not solve it. The database / library will we full of old tvshow information of all times - they could be deleted many years ago and still persist in the database, which doesn't make it faster or smaller

[wutschel]

I also was just recently surprised to recognize that Kodi shows "empty" TV shows. But this somehow seems to be conceptual. You can for example also create an empty folder named after a TV show and do scan. The TV show will show up, but w/o any episodes. As a workaround you can disable Kodi's setting "Show empty TV shows".

[Hitcher]

Workaround: Manually enter the context menu of the TV show in GUI -> Manage -> Remove from library

This is the expected way to remove a TV Show.

[pipsen]

Sorry but form my perspective it is not consistent. Movies are removed automatically, TvShows not... why should an already removed tvshow (the whole folder is gone) still persist as empty in the library? doesn't make sense at all

[DaVukovic]

I talked to @Hitcher and he's fine for me to re-open this issue.

It might have been this way since "ever", but that doesn't mean it's correct. If the folder would exist and only the files have been removed, that I would totally agree. But if the folder doesn't exist anymore, then there's no need to fill the database with information which doesn't have any source anymore.