thelangs 2 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 This has been a reoccuring issue. This was working correctly until the last update. note - I was a few updates behind, so I can't comment which update caused this issue. I updated to server 3.0.7100 and now my icon image for "movies by genre" and it's corresponding backdrop are "blank". When I select the icon, I get images from the default "metadata" library and NOT from mine. I have the metadata path substitution set to ..../roaming/mediabrowser-server/imagesbyname, just like always. the sub librarys are the same as before, but it seems either the server is ignoring my substitution. Nothing has changed on my part. Any thoughts? T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelangs 2 Posted September 14, 2016 Author Share Posted September 14, 2016 Anyone ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14912 Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Confirm that your metadata folder that you are pointing to doesn't have another folder under it called "metadata". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelangs 2 Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 It does indeed have a folder call "metadata"... What's it purpose? looks like it was recently created.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution ebr 14912 Posted September 15, 2016 Solution Share Posted September 15, 2016 Okay, that's where it is looking for everything. Take all the folders that are now siblings of "metadata" and move them into that folder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelangs 2 Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 That fixed the problem. So, from what I can gather, sometime in this or previous release, the server NOW only looks for a folder called "metadata". Whether the folder is in the default root or moved to another location. If it doesn't find "metadata", it creates one with the default genres, etc, ignoring anything else. It my case, my "imagesbyname" folder had all the required folders except metadata, where upon the server created one and used that folder and hence my genres, etc went missing. So, for people who use WMC and update to the latest release and have unique folders (ie, general), they must move those folders to "metadata", replacing any duplicate folders. It would have been nice to have a heads-up on this change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14912 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 That can happen in some situations. The problem is that some people were creating a folder somewhere called "Emby" and then pointing all of the custom paths to it. That would mean the cache, IBN etc. would all end up in the same place and wreak major havoc. This ensures that doesn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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