Jellyfin setup and running - but am I missing something?

[MrFusion]

I've moved from Plex to Jellyfin in docker on my NAS, and everything has been running great for the past month. The forums and the old reddit threads have been very helpful to get everything set up. Transcode/Plugins/Prerolls/Trailers are all working as I expect.

I'm now on the next steps on the customisation path, but it does feel like there is a gap in the 'intermediate' stage and I am wondering if Im missing something in the setup process.

For example;

I want to re-order my Libraries on my Admin dashboard, and documentation points towards this being possible in config files, but the file path instructions don't seem to align with the folders created by the docker container. How do I get to config to possibly adjust this order?

I was also looking for the web client files location to understand configuration options change logos etc and to help me see what I could tinker with some custom CSS possibly. (I set up a local config.json for that customisation option and was looking at the web client repository).

I can see the path in Jellyfin client jellyfin/jellyfin-web but this doesn't seem to correlate with anything I've set up. I even went into the container terminal looking for directories, but had no luck. Where is this pointing?

I did read a guide on creating a local version of the web client, is this the logical next step?

[Efficient_Good_5784]

I want to re-order my Libraries on my Admin dashboard, and documentation points towards this being possible in config files, but the file path instructions don't seem to align with the folders created by the docker container. How do I get to config to possibly adjust this order?

I wish these were just ordered alphabetically. I've noticed their order changes at random too.

In my opinion, I wouldn't bother with this. The order is not really important for the usage of the server anyway. And I don't think you can even manually order it by messing with the config files.

I have two separate physical servers. One runs my main Jellyfin server. The other runs a backup Jellyfin server. Both run Jellyfin in a container. The backup server recieves an exact copy of my main Jellyfin config files each day. However, despite both servers having the exact same config files to run off of, both my main and backup Jellyfin servers have different orders to the libraries in the admin dashboard.

Also, if you didn't link your config folder to be accessible outside of the Docker container, you'll need to use the system shell to enter the container where you'll manipulate the files. And if so, if you delete your container, you'll also lose all your server config data. It's best to make a host mount to have your config folder persist through multiple containers. Especially when you want to update to a new Jellyfin version.

[MrFusion]

many thanks for that insight, very glad that I did not delete the libraries and re-add them in the order I want to see them.

The config file is visible outside of the container, and I can see cache and config folders (plugins/metadata/collections etc), but I might do a check if I missed a path in my compose yml.

Because, for example I don't seem to be able to find the logo images to change branding etc.