2025-08-17, 08:10 PM
I have a two part jellyfin setup. The server is running inside of an incus container on an nvidia jetson orin nano. It has a 4tb m.2 ssd on board. Deluge and Sickchill work together to fetch things, and those things end up on that 4tb ssd. If stuff is good, and I'd like to keep it, I migrate it across to a synology rackstation in my home office, which has 32tb of storage. Deluge handles this well, I can just "move download folder" to its forever home on an smb mount to that nas.
This is where the trouble happens. When I move stuff or delete stuff Jellyfin just has no idea wtf to do. Before I switched to Jellyfin I was using plex. Plex seems to handle this just fine, and it did not occur to me that this would be a problem until after I moved shop to Jellyfin. Now every time I move something, I have to manually delete and re-add it to various playlists, because Jellyfin "can't tell that something has changed locations, even though its doing library scans multiple times daily".
This is also exacerbated by the fact that Jellyfin has a lot of trouble identifying media. Everything that lands on my nas gets mis-classified, and its largely because it can't seem to tell if something is a show or a movie. I have to go manually re-identify a ton of stuff, and THAT is an issue because I can't just select 500 items and say "this is all a show, and its all adventure time". I have to do them one by one.
So: tl;dr - having Jellyfin be aware of media deletions or the moving of media would be a great help, and also massively reduce downstream complexity events.
This is where the trouble happens. When I move stuff or delete stuff Jellyfin just has no idea wtf to do. Before I switched to Jellyfin I was using plex. Plex seems to handle this just fine, and it did not occur to me that this would be a problem until after I moved shop to Jellyfin. Now every time I move something, I have to manually delete and re-add it to various playlists, because Jellyfin "can't tell that something has changed locations, even though its doing library scans multiple times daily".
This is also exacerbated by the fact that Jellyfin has a lot of trouble identifying media. Everything that lands on my nas gets mis-classified, and its largely because it can't seem to tell if something is a show or a movie. I have to go manually re-identify a ton of stuff, and THAT is an issue because I can't just select 500 items and say "this is all a show, and its all adventure time". I have to do them one by one.
So: tl;dr - having Jellyfin be aware of media deletions or the moving of media would be a great help, and also massively reduce downstream complexity events.