Movie & TV Folder Structure

[weegyavlover]

Hi,

New JellyFin user and first time poster (be gentle).

I have 2 issues with my current setup and one has led me to the other.

First issue:
I had a 2 drive failure on my Synology NAS, however in a very middle-class turn of events I have a spare Synology NAS I have been meaning to setup and this brought JellyFin to my attention.  As my current library is in a RO state I am desperately trying to copy my some 20TB Movie/TV estate to new NAS - this is in hand but just a bit of background.

Second Issue (what I need advice on):
With my new NAS I setup a new volume, then added a "Video" folder to that volume and have all my movies in that "Video" folder.  I did this as I was rushing a bit so I get everything off my old NAS which I need to rebuild.

However, I am now thinking I need to add my TV series to this and think I should have made a movie folder i.e. - volume1/video/movies - and then a tv folder - volume1/video/tv - Is this a correct assumption?

If this is how I should have done it - if I was to create a new folder for the Movies and move them to this would I have to rebuild all my movie and movie collections again?

Thanks in Advance
Col

PS - I should also say I have been searching this forum for this question but did not find it (that is not to say it does not exist - just I never found what I was looking for)

[RostigerSpieler]

So if I understand correctly, volume1 is your hard disk and on this hard disk you have a folder called Video. And you want to set up another folder there called “TV” and then link it in Jellyfin?

From my point of view.

I also use an external drive. On this drive I have a folder called Movies. In this movie folder I have several subfolders (example: series, scifi, action, horror etc.).
And that works quite well. I then use a separate category for each subfolder in jellyfin. So you can see the categories Horror, Scifi etc. at the top of Jellyfin.

So that should work for you too.

What else you can do, if you go to the settings of jellyfin and then to Libraries, you can also add further folders to a category.

Click on the 3 small dots next to a category and go to Manage library. At the top you will see the word “Directories” and behind it a plus symbol. Click on it. Now you can add more directories to the category. This also works with other folders, regardless of which drive they are on.

I hope this helps you.

[weegyavlover]

I think I have it figured out - maybe not the best solution but think it will work.

Volume1 as you said is the main Raid volume.

As I said I have a Synology shared folder created for movies called "Video". So that means I map a drive to "Video" on laptop and I see all my movies.

I have now created another Synology shared folder called "TV" and added this to JellyFin and looks like that has worked.

What I would like to do is add two new folders to the Video share:
Movies
TV

Then move my movies from the root of Video to the new "Movies" folder.

However If I were to do that I am not sure if I can just repoint the current movie I am not sure if I move them to this new sub-folder what affect that would have on my current movie library.

I have seen in the Library for Movies there is an option to "Manage Library" and in there I can change the Library location. However if I did that and then rescanned would that update the movies and collections without impacting any of the identifying or artwork changes I have made?

[RostigerSpieler]

The films are then updated. As far as I know. Jellyfin does this automatically after a few minutes. Or you can trigger the scan yourself manually. However, this may change the order of the movies on the main page. So the last thing you added will no longer appear in the “Newest” tab. Jellyfin will simply re-sort the files depending on the time of the scan. Unfortunately, I don't know how Jellyfin does this.

I often exchange movies when I have converted them to a different format. Even if the name of the new file is the same as the previous file, Jellyfin changes the order in the “Newly added” category on the start page. Also, if the movies are not labeled correctly (name + year), it can happen that the covers are not downloaded correctly from the Internet and you have to enter them again by hand.