2026-02-05, 12:47 AM
I started building a JF 10.11.5 server in December. I had varied results and had to start over a few times before I understood JF sufficiently to do a decent job. I woke up this morning and my PLAYLIST tile was gone and there was a new tile labeled Collections 2. On top of that my entire movie collection was empty. The last thing I did was add some additional music yesterday, but what I think broke it was when I tried to add eBooks a few days back.
I tried to restore from a back-up which I've been creating daily since there are so many reports of JF 10.11.x being a pain and the back-up folder was empty; it had a weeks worth of back-ups in it last night. Fortunately, I kept copies off-line. I restored three different days back-ups one after another, and they all failed in one way or another. I finally went back two weeks and tried to restore one of those back-ups. It also resulted in a corrupted final JF DB, no collections, very slow and most of the custom data I had painstakingly entered up to the point of the back-up was gone. It seems that back-up don't actually back-up all the data. Thousands of posters were missing, metadata was missing, etc. and I checked all the boxes when I did that back-ups. O well. Live and learn.
I am posting so others who might feel brave like I did, think very carefully about using JF 10.11.x. I'm burned out on JF now and will probably go back to PLEX until things get sorted out.
I think JF has a lot of promise, but all the issues with the current version really needs to be sorted out especially since clients are starting to move away from 10.10.7 which I understand still works very well.
Library size is what I consider modest, but it seems too much for the current revision of JF, or maybe as I said it was when I tried adding eBooks. Just be careful. I'm retired and have time, but I've spent over 300 hours over the last few weeks getting JF to where I wanted it, and now it's all gone.
3500 movies 1080p
500 movies 4K
1200 albums 14700 tracks
424 TV shows 25,000 episodes
I tried to restore from a back-up which I've been creating daily since there are so many reports of JF 10.11.x being a pain and the back-up folder was empty; it had a weeks worth of back-ups in it last night. Fortunately, I kept copies off-line. I restored three different days back-ups one after another, and they all failed in one way or another. I finally went back two weeks and tried to restore one of those back-ups. It also resulted in a corrupted final JF DB, no collections, very slow and most of the custom data I had painstakingly entered up to the point of the back-up was gone. It seems that back-up don't actually back-up all the data. Thousands of posters were missing, metadata was missing, etc. and I checked all the boxes when I did that back-ups. O well. Live and learn.
I am posting so others who might feel brave like I did, think very carefully about using JF 10.11.x. I'm burned out on JF now and will probably go back to PLEX until things get sorted out.
I think JF has a lot of promise, but all the issues with the current version really needs to be sorted out especially since clients are starting to move away from 10.10.7 which I understand still works very well.
Library size is what I consider modest, but it seems too much for the current revision of JF, or maybe as I said it was when I tried adding eBooks. Just be careful. I'm retired and have time, but I've spent over 300 hours over the last few weeks getting JF to where I wanted it, and now it's all gone.
3500 movies 1080p
500 movies 4K
1200 albums 14700 tracks
424 TV shows 25,000 episodes