2023-12-04, 07:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-12-04, 07:23 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
That is not how Jellyfin works and there's no setting for what you want to do. Jellyfin expects to always have access to your media files.
If I'm understanding this correctly, you want to be able to have title images be cached so that they appear when the drives containing the media are removed? If so, even if that was how it worked, you can't open them since Jellyfin will give you an error.
Also, I think you're misunderstanding what "offline" is. You want your server to have some functionality while "offline", but generally, this support for "offline" access is placed on the client instead of the server.
As an example, if you're browsing your Jellyfin server from your phone, your phone would be the one responsible for gathering all necessary data needed to be in an "offline" mode.
Just because you don't need internet to run a Jellyfin server doesn't mean that the server itself can be offline too and still work. A server needs to fully work to "serve" content to a client, even if the client is on the same machine as the server.
Is there a reason why you need to disconnect the drives from your computer? Is your server running on a laptop that you need to move around? Why not build/buy a NAS for your server that you can leave running 24/7?
If I'm understanding this correctly, you want to be able to have title images be cached so that they appear when the drives containing the media are removed? If so, even if that was how it worked, you can't open them since Jellyfin will give you an error.
Also, I think you're misunderstanding what "offline" is. You want your server to have some functionality while "offline", but generally, this support for "offline" access is placed on the client instead of the server.
As an example, if you're browsing your Jellyfin server from your phone, your phone would be the one responsible for gathering all necessary data needed to be in an "offline" mode.
Just because you don't need internet to run a Jellyfin server doesn't mean that the server itself can be offline too and still work. A server needs to fully work to "serve" content to a client, even if the client is on the same machine as the server.
Is there a reason why you need to disconnect the drives from your computer? Is your server running on a laptop that you need to move around? Why not build/buy a NAS for your server that you can leave running 24/7?