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Moving content between folders in a library - Six66Mike - 2023-11-01
I currently have 1 share for my Movies library but may need to add a second path. As a result of the new share and balancing things out, I may need to move films from the old to the new share.
When I do this, will the path change be easily picked up by Jellyfin and simply update the path, or will it rescan, pull new metadata, etc.?
Previously when I did this with Zappiti Video it would just update the path and all metadata remained, just checking if I can expect the same behaviour.
RE: Moving content between folders in a library - TheDreadPirate - 2023-11-01
I had to do something similar when I added a new hard drive and split up a couple of the libraries across 2 hard drives.
From my experience, the "check for new files/updates" scan will pick up the new path. No change in metadata, IIRC.
RE: Moving content between folders in a library - paulc - 2024-11-05
What would be the best way to do this on Windows?
I have a library setup called "Movies"
Under that Library, one of the paths is "E:\_moviedir\silentfilms"
I want to move all those movies in that path to "G:\_moviedir\silentfilms"
Do I just add path "g:\_moviedir\silentfilms" to the "Movie" Library and then start moving them, leaving "E:\_moviedir\silentfilms" alone in the library config until the move is over?
Can I just shut down the server, move the files and edit AppData\Local\jellyfin\root\default\Movies\Silentfilms.mblink and just replace the path there to "g:\_moviedir\silentfilms" and run a scan?
RE: Moving content between folders in a library - TheDreadPirate - 2024-11-05
Add "g:\_moviedir\silentfilms" to the library settings, make sure real time monitoring is NOT enabled, start copying your files over, once that has finished "scan all libraries". Once that finishes you would remove the E drive folder from the library settings.