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The menu, in three bands

Every screen in Z-Keeper hangs off this one pane. It runs top to bottom in the order the work happens: look at your library, then change it, then check on it.

▤Library⌄

🗀Filesystem⌄

⟳Sync⌄

⛊Identify⌄

⊞Collections

Library: the wall, and the nine ways to narrow it

The poster wall — and the one item whose children aren't pages. Nine of them are filters you tick, in three bands; Sort sits apart at the bottom because it doesn't filter anything.

▤Library⌃

☑Movies

☑Series

☑Collections

☑Favorites

☑Unapproved titles

☑Watched

☑Not watched

☑Unpack collections

☑Unpack episodes

⇅Sort

Library

The poster wall. Three sources sit at its top right — Current Zidoo, Blueprint and Master Catalog — so you can ask the same question of any layer.

Movies

Include standalone films and collections.

Series

Include TV series.

Collections

Only collection posters.

Favorites

Only what you flagged as a Favorite on this device — so it does not apply to the Master Catalog view.

Unapproved titles

Not yet cemented — walk the wall and approve as you go.

Watched

Movies or series you have already watched on this device.

Not watched

Movies or series you have not watched yet on this device.

Unpack collections

Every movie is unpacked out of its collection onto the main wall; the collection posters themselves are not shown.

Unpack episodes

Every episode is unpacked onto the main wall instead of sitting inside its series and season.

Sort

Not a filter — how the wall is ordered.

Unapproved titles allows you use the Poster Wall to review and approve (cement) title matches, in any wall mode.

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Filesystem: the same films, asked about as files

When you want to see your library from the perspective of your filesystem. The poster wall lets you see what files belong to a movie or episode; Filesystem lets you see what movie or episode is matched to a file — or not matched at all.

▤Library

🗀Filesystem⌃

⧉Find duplicates

Find extras

✎Batch Rename

⟳Sync

⛊Identify

Filesystem

Your movie folders and video files on the active Zidoo device, as of the last Sync on that Zidoo — and you choose which fields each file shows. The Library says what you own; this says what is on the drive.

Find duplicates

Video files sharing a name (ignoring the extension), an identical byte size, or an identical runtime (within the same folder) — findings that hint at a possible duplicate movie.

Find extras

Sets of files that belong to one movie: a main feature plus its extras, trailers or different cuts of the same title (theatrical, director's cut). Use this tool to find, preview and even delete these videos.

Batch Rename

A powerful tool for renaming a set of files by rules you define yourself. For example: every Arkane.*.mkv becomes Arcane.*.mkv, subfolders included.

Library answers “what titles do my Zidoo know about?”. Filesystem answers “what is on the drive?”

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Sync: everything that talks to the player

The group where Z-Keeper and your Zidoo meet. The parent reads the device; its children are the three things that write back or reset.

▤Library

🗀Filesystem

⟳Sync⌃

↑ Push fixes

👁 Watched & Favorites

⊘ Clear all approvals

⛊Identify

Sync

Reads the device and compares three records: your files, the Zidoo's library, and what Z-Keeper holds. The scan only reads — writes happen when you fix something.

Push fixes

The one tool that writes changes to the player in bulk: matches, collections, categories, artwork and metadata, sent from your Master Catalog or Blueprint.

Watched & Favorites

Reads every title on every Zidoo and sets the flag on each Zidoo if any Zidoo has it set for that title. So if you've watched a movie on one Zidoo, every Zidoo in the house now has it flagged as watched — the same for favorites.

Clear all approvals

Resets every file-to-movie approval so each match comes back for review. Sits last because it undoes rather than does.

No player configured? The whole Sync group greys out — nothing here has anything to talk to.

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Identify: the Master Catalog's tools

The shield marks the Master Catalog. Everything under it works at the Master Catalog level — device-free, and available even if you never own a Zidoo.

⟳Sync

⛊Identify⌃

🗎 Create NFO files

☁ Share & compare

⛭ Catalog health

⊞Collections

Identify

The workbench: match files against TMDB, review by confidence, fix matches and artwork, and cement each file's identity into the Master Catalog. Your primary tool for maintaining the Master Catalog — and the best way to view it outside the poster wall in Master Catalog mode.

Create NFO files

Writes a Kodi-convention .nfo beside each video — and optionally the poster and backdrop. A sidecar belongs to the file, so every device that mounts the folder reads it. With no Zidoo at all, this is the tool that carries your catalog into whichever player you do use.

Share & compare

Uploads your catalog's identity data to z-keeper.com: an off-site copy you can restore from, and a runtime check against everyone else's catalogs — to help you spot the wrong matches in your own library.

Catalog health

Finds the structural problems — split series, duplicate or empty collections, titles with no id at all — and gives you the tools to fix them.

These tools work within the context of your entire Master Catalog — not one player.

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Collections and Categories

Tools used to help you quickly group movies into collections and assign categories to movies/series.

⛊Identify

⊞Collections

The quiet end of the pane

The last items don't change anything. They tell you what the device is, what Z-Keeper has done, and how it's set up.

ⓘZidoo Info

◷Audit Log

🗎Beta release notes

⚙Settings

Zidoo Info

Hardware, firmware, and every Android app installed on the player with its version — including, most importantly, the Home Theater app.

Audit Log

Every action Z-Keeper has taken, with its reasons. The first place to look when something surprised you.

Settings

Your devices, your movie folders, your TMDB key, and many other settings and tools.

Beta release notes

What changed in the build you're running.

Every item has a tooltip — hover nearly anything for more detail. And right-click empty space on any Library screen to go back. There is a second menu, too.

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The other menu: right-click any title or filename

The pane navigates between screens. This one acts on one title — and it's on nearly every screen you'll visit. Most single-film work happens here, not in a tool.

▷Play

Matching tools

⟳Update movie from Zidoo

Change artwork

Edit movie data

Add to collection…

Remove from “Alien Collection”

Categories…

nfoWrite NFO

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The gold three cement

Matching tools, Change artwork and Edit movie data are the third road to cement: what you decide here becomes the answer in your Master Catalog, this device's Blueprint and the Zidoo — one title at a time, no Sync required.

Update movie from Zidoo

Re-reads this title's details and artwork from the device. Changes nothing on the device — it's a refresh of Z-Keeper's copy; a Sync on one title.

Write NFO

Writes an .nfo beside the video naming exactly which film or episode it is — and optionally its poster and backdrop. It shows you every file it will create, and which ones already exist, before it writes anything.

Clear match — the safer one

Tells the Zidoo to forget which film this is, dropping it into the device's Unmatched shelf. It also clears your Z-Keeper approval, so the file is teed up for you to match to the right movie or episode.

Everything here changes what a title is, or how it looks. Next: the half that takes something away.

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Lower down the same menu: undoing, and the file itself

Below the separator the menu leaves the catalog behind: first the items that undo an answer, then the three that act on the file on disk itself.

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✕Clear my approval

Clear match (move to Unmatched)

⊘Block from catalog

🗀Open folder in Explorer

✎Rename file

🗑Delete file

🗑Remove file from Master Catalog

Block from catalog — the heavy one

Unregisters the file from the Zidoo entirely, and the device usually locks the filename so it won't come back. For a file that should never appear here — not for a wrong identity. The block is reversible on the player itself: HT Data Manager → Manage removed videos.

Clear my approval

Clears the approval on this title only — from the Master Catalog, the Blueprint and your Zidoo copy (unless you run Z-Keeper with no Zidoo at all). It doesn't break the match; it just makes the match questionable again, so you can check it and fix it later. The device itself is untouched.

Rename file

Renames the video to a name the Zidoo matches on — the year, and the TMDB id if the year alone doesn't convince it. It appears only when the file has been matched, because the id is the whole point. It sits down here with the other two items that act on the file rather than on the catalog.

Delete file or Remove file from Master Catalog

You only ever see one of these, and which one tells you something: Delete file when the file is there, Remove file from Master Catalog when it isn't. The catalog keeps rows for files it can't see on purpose — an offline drive must never cost you a cemented identity — so that row leaves only when you say the file isn't coming back.

Items appear and vanish with the title's state — a menu that offers you nothing impossible.