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How to move an entire library? - theolaa - 2025-01-29
Hello,
A little bit of background: I have a library with one path added, and it goes something like
~/File-Server/Movies/. I've since stopped using my home folder for media storage, and File-Server is now a symlink to /media/Media-Server/root/.I'd like to change the library path to be
/media/Media-Server/root/Movies/ (thereby no longer using the home folder, and allowing me to remove the symlinks), but I'm afraid that if I do this, I'll lose things like metadata (images mostly), trickplay images, watched status, subtitles, etc..Essentially, I want Jellyfin to know that all my media is the same media it knew about before, just in a new location. I don't want it to think that I deleted all my old media and now I have a bunch of new media in a new location that it has to process.
Is it as simple as adding the new path and removing the old path, and clicking OK? Or will I need to go through some other process to preserve the things I listed above? Is it best to just not bother, and leave the symlinks in place?
Any advice is appreciated,
Thanks,
RE: How to move an entire library? - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2025-01-29
Jellyfin currently stores everything using the absolute path, so you would need to regenerate all the metadata once anything changes to the paths leading up to any of your files.
It would appear as new media to Jellyfin in most cases.
RE: How to move an entire library? - theolaa - 2025-01-29
That's too bad, I guess I'll have to leave the symlinks in place.