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Change metadata location - SjoerdHekking - 2025-02-24
Will changing an existing metadata location move all files to the new location? re-download it? or do I need to scan the libraries manually and clean the old location manually?
RE: Change metadata location - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-25
Depends if you're using Docker or not. If Jellyfin is installed directly on Linux or Windows moving the metadata folder will result in a bad time. Metadata file locations are stored in the database with absolute paths. If this is a Docker install, you can freely relocate your files as long as the container's config is updated accordingly.
RE: Change metadata location - SjoerdHekking - 2025-02-25
(2025-02-25, 01:36 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Depends if you're using Docker or not. If Jellyfin is installed directly on Linux or Windows moving the metadata folder will result in a bad time. Metadata file locations are stored in the database with absolute paths. If this is a Docker install, you can freely relocate your files as long as the container's config is updated accordingly.
If only you had been one hour earlier... yes... bad time it is...
I am currently forcing a rescan for all libraries, which works fine, but does take a while...
Simply moving them around wasn't possible, nor changing the database manually/semi-automated...