2024-12-18, 05:22 PM
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!
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!
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