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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Moving Server To New System With Different Username

     
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    Moving Server To New System With Different Username

    pavichokche
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    2024-11-26, 03:33 PM (This post was last modified: 2024-11-26, 03:37 PM by pavichokche. Edited 1 time in total.)
    Here are some of the bits from the log file which reference the old user directory still:

    [2024-11-26 00:45:36.222 -05:00] [ERR] [3] MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem: Error refreshing owned items for "C:\Users\old_username\AppData\Local\Jellyfin\root\default\Kids"
    System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\old_username \AppData\Local\Jellyfin\root\default\Kids'.

    ^ this one I got for each library and the collections library

    [2024-11-26 00:26:30.832 -05:00] [INF] [14] Emby.Server.Implementations.ScheduledTasks.Tasks.CleanupCollectionAndPlaylistPathsTask: Item in "Christmas Movies" cannot be found at "C:\Users\ old_username \AppData\Local\Jellyfin\data\collections\The Santa Clause Collection [boxset]"

    ^ this one I got for each collection that I made myself

    And that's about it...there were errors struggling to find the profile pictures for each user but I think the server sorted itself out because I saw them reappear later (at startup all the main directories are pointing to the correct place with the new windows username).



    (2024-11-26, 03:27 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Are you talking about the Windows user name changing?  If so, I don't see why you'd need to change anything IN jellyfin other than, maybe, file ownership.

    Yes, the windows user name on the new system is different. There are a number of config files which point to locations in %localappdata (which as we know contains the user name). 
    Editing those couple of files remedied most of the issues, but a few still persist, as seen in the log exerpts I shared above.

    %localappdata%\jellyfin\config\config.xml:
    <CachePath>C:\Users\new_username\AppData\Local\Jellyfin\cache</CachePath>
    <MetadataPath>C:\Users\new_username\AppData\Local\Jellyfin\metadata</MetadataPath>
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    Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-26, 03:23 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by TheDreadPirate - 2024-11-26, 03:27 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-26, 03:33 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-26, 03:42 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by TheDreadPirate - 2024-11-26, 04:23 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-26, 04:28 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by wenzelja - 2024-11-26, 04:47 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by paulc - 2024-11-26, 05:16 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-26, 05:27 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by TheDreadPirate - 2024-11-26, 05:20 PM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-27, 04:20 AM
    RE: Moving Server To New System With Different Username - by pavichokche - 2024-11-27, 06:21 AM

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