2024-05-14, 01:52 PM
Hi all,
I have a tv show that I've collected for years, organised in a certain way. I originally wanted to keep it as it and use the music video library to manually deal with all the metadata. But now I'm wondering if there's a way to keep the original files as they are, but use symlinks to make a separate library folder, which I can then organise and rename to suit Jellyfin's needs. I just realised it would be much more convenient to let Jellyfin do most of the legwork and manually adjust the metadata within the Jellyfin web client if I need to.
I downloaded a program called HardLinkShell to help with this, and the program is capable of both symlinks and hard links, but when I try either nothing is detected by Jellyfin. I should clarify I'm only linking the media files themselves, not the whole folder (I've just created new folders).
So, is what I'm after possible? Or is the only way to keep both organisations to actually copy the files, which will be impossible to do as its TBs of data!
I'm on the latest Windows server 10.9.1.
I have a tv show that I've collected for years, organised in a certain way. I originally wanted to keep it as it and use the music video library to manually deal with all the metadata. But now I'm wondering if there's a way to keep the original files as they are, but use symlinks to make a separate library folder, which I can then organise and rename to suit Jellyfin's needs. I just realised it would be much more convenient to let Jellyfin do most of the legwork and manually adjust the metadata within the Jellyfin web client if I need to.
I downloaded a program called HardLinkShell to help with this, and the program is capable of both symlinks and hard links, but when I try either nothing is detected by Jellyfin. I should clarify I'm only linking the media files themselves, not the whole folder (I've just created new folders).
So, is what I'm after possible? Or is the only way to keep both organisations to actually copy the files, which will be impossible to do as its TBs of data!
I'm on the latest Windows server 10.9.1.