Yesterday, 06:32 PM
I figured this out, I'll leave it here in case anyone is in my boat of need to transfer large collections from Windows to Linux.
- Make a copy of the collection folder with XML file, change the file paths inside the XML to ones for the target OS.
- Copy it to the standard Jellyfin collection location.
- Change the owner of the folder from root to jellyfin. This part appears to be critical and what I was missing. If you don't you can't delete or modify the collection, and a lot of weird things seem to happen like the collection being empty, the thumbnail disappearing, etc.
- Refresh your libraries and it should be there!
- Make a copy of the collection folder with XML file, change the file paths inside the XML to ones for the target OS.
- Copy it to the standard Jellyfin collection location.
- Change the owner of the folder from root to jellyfin. This part appears to be critical and what I was missing. If you don't you can't delete or modify the collection, and a lot of weird things seem to happen like the collection being empty, the thumbnail disappearing, etc.
- Refresh your libraries and it should be there!