Your filter excludes all titles in your library - revisited!

chjohans · **Joined:** July 25th, 2010, 10:01 am **Posts:** 162

I'm still plagued by this error Pete, it happens every single time I start MCM and often I have to start it 2-3-4 times in order to show my library.

If I dare to touch the "View & Filtering options..." button I can be sure it happens, so filtering is pretty much disabled for me.

I remember this from a while back, and I was not the only one that experienced this, you didn't find a solution that time.

Can we give this another go please? I really want my filter back, and it's a bit annoying to have to start MCM 2-3-4 times, although it's running pretty much all the time.

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Pete · **Posted:** February 8th, 2018, 7:15 pm

chjohans wrote:

ListFilter_ShowNotMissing: False

Big red flag.

This should be True most of the time (unless you really want to filter out any show or movie that has metadata -- which sounds incorrect to me).

Click View & Filtering Options... » Metadata » Show if the title has all metadata/artwork (it should be checked).

chjohans · **Joined:** July 25th, 2010, 10:01 am **Posts:** 162

It is true that "Show if the title has all metadata/artwork" is not checked, however it is also true that "Disable all filtering" on the main page is checked. So filters should not be applied when I start MCM.

The way I use this is to uncheck "Disable all filtering" once in a while to only show those titles that are missing some matadata, that's why it's set that way.

Maybe we are on to something here? It almost looks like "Disable all filtering" (which *is checked) only works about half the time I'm starting MCM?

But anyhow I did check "Show if the title has all metadata/artwork" and started MCM 10 times and not once did if show an empty list, so it has something to do with this.

But as I said, I always have "Disable all filtering" (unless I unset it) so it should not matter how those flags are set.

I suggest you check the "Disable all filtering" logic, maybe there is some sort of "timing problem" so it's not always read/set before you show the initial view/list? Something like that would explain what I experience.

But since I have all the other flags under View & Filtering options -> Metadata checked it still should not have shown an empty list, it should have shown my movies/shows with missing metadata.

chjohans · **Joined:** July 25th, 2010, 10:01 am **Posts:** 162

Did some more testing.some more testing, started MCM with "Disable all filtering" checked and all the choices under View & Filtering options -> Metadata checked. All my movies/shows were shown in the list.

Unchecked "Disable all filtering", all mu movies/shows were still listed.

Unchecked View & Filtering options -> Metadata -> Show if the title has all metadata/artwork, as expected the list now showed only titles with missing metadata.

Checked View & Filtering options -> Metadata -> Show if the title has all metadata/artwork, insted of showing all my movies/shows it showed an ampty list with the text "Your filter excludes all titles in your library." Checking "Disable all filtering" had no effect at this point, the list was still empty.

However this behavior is not consistent, I can duplicate this but it only happens about half the time I try, the other times it behaves as expected.

I'm quite sure there is an issue with the filter options so please have another look at this, I'll do any testing you would like me to do. Thanks.

Pete · **Posted:** February 9th, 2018, 7:27 am

Sounds like you're onto something that's reproducible now. Would you enter something into the Issue Tracker to the effect of inconsistent behavior when the filter disable option is checked on startup, etc.?

chjohans · **Joined:** July 25th, 2010, 10:01 am **Posts:** 162

Sure, issue #1792 created in the issue tracker. Thanks for looking into this!

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