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Custom Folders for meta-data - yodamin - 2025-09-01
HI,
I have Jellyfin in running on Linux.
I would like to put all the cache folders on a 2ndary drive as well as the metadat, nfo's everything on the separate drive, so when I use the file system to browse the video folders I only see the video file and not a bunch of picture files and nfo files.
I have a 512GB NvME for the OS drive and a 12TB mechanical drive for the media files for the Jellyfin server.
I also have a 512Gb SSD 2ndary drive in the Jellyfin server.
My plan was to use the 512Gb SSD as a cache,metadata, temp trans-code directory for the Jellyfin server.
I mentioned this in another thread and was warned off from doing it by a user of these forums, saying ti would get messy and it would not work properly unless I left the cache and metadata directories at default.
I would like to put all the meta-data, pictures, nfo's whatever Jellyfin is currently placing in the Folder with the video file I want to put that on the 2ndary drive.
Reason is, I have another 12TB media drive on my desktop that does not have all the meta-data in it that the media drive on the Jellyfin server does.
I want to enable the "delete on destination" option in grysnc so that the drive on the Jellyfin server becomes an exact mirror of the drive in my desktop.
When I do this, every-time I run a backup/sync all that meta data in the video folders will be deleted and then Jellyfin will scrape it all back.
I am trying to avoid excess processing every-time I run a sync and therefore reduce wear on the drive and lower the processing time on the Jellyfin server by eliminating the need to go and get all the meta-date again every time I run a sync.
Therefore I would like to remove all that stuff from the video folders and put it all on a separate folder on the 2ndary drive.
I can edit the paths in the field for the cache/metadata so on so I do not see why not do it?
I am asking here just because of the comment from the other forum user about it getting messy and won't work properly.
So, is this possible to do without completely messing everything up?
RE: Custom Folders for meta-data - Henkow - 2025-09-01
I use mergerFS to achieve this. My media drives have just the media and an SSD store all the metadata. If you access the share created by mergerFS it will appear as the media and metadata are stored at the same location.
E.g.
/moviedrive/movie1 (year)/movie1.mkv
/ssd/movie1 (year)/movie1.nfo
/movieMerged/movie1 (year)/movie1.mkv
/movieMerged/movie1 (year)/movie1.nfo
RE: Custom Folders for meta-data - Henkow - 2025-09-01
Also, when creating the share you can choose to store new data to the drive with the least amount of space available. Assuming you have more storage free on the HDD, this allows Jellyfin to store the new metadata on the SSD.