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Moving Jellyfin generated images to another directory - BotchedMiracle - 2024-12-18
I recently built an unraid server with a 1TB SSD for my appdata, including jellyfin. The rest of the storage on the machine is HDDs.
I’ve been building out my library and I am very satisfied with the config and performance, however, I made a bit of a mistake early on. I opted to save images and trickplay renders into the same folders that the media is located. I thought this would be convenient for getting a bird’s eye view of every show’s generated images at a folder level. But since all my media is on my HDDs, I kind of realize now that jellyfin is accessing these HDDs to load every single thumbnail. I’d like to load these from the SSD instead, and “preserve” everything. No broken links, no regenerated images, nothing.
Since my appdata folder for jellyfin is on my SSD (the folder the application is installed to) is it possible to make my appdata folder the target for all generated images, AND move all existing images over? If possible, I’d like this to be a straight move operation. I’d like to avoid copying, because I don’t need two sets of all these images. Avoiding command line would be nice, but interested to hear if anyone else had this same issue that had to solve it this way. I’m not shy from it, just want to see if jellyfin has a native way to support what I’m trying to do.
Thank you for reading!
RE: Moving Jellyfin generated images to another directory - TheDreadPirate - 2024-12-18
I am not aware of a way to gracefully "transfer" the images from your media folders to the appdata folder.
You'd have to remove the images from your media folders, uncheck saving of images to media folders in the library settings, and then "find missing metadata" (check replace all images) or possible "replace all metadata" (check replace all images).
RE: Moving Jellyfin generated images to another directory - BotchedMiracle - 2024-12-19
Basically there's no way to do it from what I found. So here's what I did.
I went into my media folders and just deleted any .jpg and .trickplay folder recursively. Then I changed the library settings to not save images besides media, and ran the app through refreshing all metadata and trickplay images. Everything started generating in random folder structures within the data/metadata/library folder.
Takes a long time to regenerate trickplay images but it's a small price to pay. Once it's done I no longer have to worry about it.
RE: Moving Jellyfin generated images to another directory - Cutter - 2025-05-08
There's (now?) a task that moves trickplay images back to the data folder. Unfortunately there's no equivalent to move media images.