2025-07-21, 02:07 PM
Over the weekend I moved my Jellyfin media onto a MacOS hosted Jellyfin server (10.10.7)
I store all my meta data in a movie.nfo file in the directory of the media:
Some Cool Movie (2003)
- Some Cool Movie (2003).mp4
- Some Cool Movie (2003).jpg
- Some Cool Movie (2003)-fanart.jpg
- movie.nfo
After the media was moved and I scanned it into the new instance I noticed that in the individual folders along with the files above I now have a file named: movie.nfo-e. When I run a diff on the two movie.* files they are the exact same.
If I go and make a change to the metadata like add a new tag and review the two files only the original movie.nfo is changed to reflect the new tag. The movie.nfo-e remains the same as when it was imported.
What is the purpose of the movie.nfo-e file and why can't I find a reference to it on any of the release notes?
I store all my meta data in a movie.nfo file in the directory of the media:
Some Cool Movie (2003)
- Some Cool Movie (2003).mp4
- Some Cool Movie (2003).jpg
- Some Cool Movie (2003)-fanart.jpg
- movie.nfo
After the media was moved and I scanned it into the new instance I noticed that in the individual folders along with the files above I now have a file named: movie.nfo-e. When I run a diff on the two movie.* files they are the exact same.
If I go and make a change to the metadata like add a new tag and review the two files only the original movie.nfo is changed to reflect the new tag. The movie.nfo-e remains the same as when it was imported.
What is the purpose of the movie.nfo-e file and why can't I find a reference to it on any of the release notes?