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movie.nfo-e - TarnishedTinMan - 2025-07-21
Over the weekend I moved my Jellyfin media onto a MacOS hosted Jellyfin server (10.10.7)
I store all my meta data in a movie.nfo file in the directory of the media:
Some Cool Movie (2003)
- Some Cool Movie (2003).mp4
- Some Cool Movie (2003).jpg
- Some Cool Movie (2003)-fanart.jpg
- movie.nfo
After the media was moved and I scanned it into the new instance I noticed that in the individual folders along with the files above I now have a file named: movie.nfo-e. When I run a diff on the two movie.* files they are the exact same.
If I go and make a change to the metadata like add a new tag and review the two files only the original movie.nfo is changed to reflect the new tag. The movie.nfo-e remains the same as when it was imported.
What is the purpose of the movie.nfo-e file and why can't I find a reference to it on any of the release notes?
RE: movie.nfo-e - theguymadmax - 2025-07-22
having a -e after the nfo file in Jellyfin is not a thing. I would just delete it.
RE: movie.nfo-e - TarnishedTinMan - 2025-07-23
I have done some more testing and adding metadata to a file changes the .nfo version but never the .nfo-e version. Just weird. I will probably delete them all as you suggested.