StarsLight 0 Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Just test the movie move to another folder, Emby can't recognize it as existing file. Favourite / Watch history for this files are all gone.... Any setting can archive this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37251 Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 @@StarsLight can you please discuss a specific example? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8356 Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 All I need to do is a library scan to recognize any changes I make to folders or files. Not sure on Favorites, but watched status is tracked by providerid, so is this media that has no externalids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 As long as I store metadata with my files I don't have an issue here. When I move movies to a new share all their details travel with them. It may not carry over watched status though, I haven't tried that recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14959 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 As long as I store metadata with my files I don't have an issue here. When I move movies to a new share all their details travel with them. It may not carry over watched status though, I haven't tried that recently. Yes it will - as long as the movie is properly identified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarsLight 0 Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 (edited) I tried by below steps: 1) Mark Watched and favourite in one movie 2) Move the folder in level 2 folder by Windows Explorer 3) Use refresh mode (scan for new and updated files) to try recognize the existing movie Original structure: "Movie" folder > {movie 1} folder > movie.avi Change strucutre: "Movie folder > {movie 1} folder > "test" folder > movie.avi Luckily, the metadata seem not be override by this action. But the Emby can't recognize the movie, I'm afraid any missing history / setting once the directory structure change.... Should I organize the folder structure by other methods? Edited October 16, 2017 by StarsLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14959 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Okay, well, you've re-organized your structure into an unsupported one. Why are you trying to do that? Can you give us the actual example you are performing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarsLight 0 Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 (edited) Okay, well, you've re-organized your structure into an unsupported one. Why are you trying to do that? Can you give us the actual example you are performing? Well I would like to reorganize the media because improper structure group by their media type (i.e. movie, anime) and category. Further question is what is best way of recognizing folder structure to let Emby recognize? Edited October 16, 2017 by StarsLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14959 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Well I would like to reorganize the media because improper structure group by their media type (i.e. movie, anime) and category. Hi. Your example above doesn't seem to be accomplishing that as it is putting a folder between the individual movie folder and the video file - not an organizational folder above the individual movie folder... Original structure: "Movie" folder > {movie 1} folder > movie.avi Change strucutre: "Movie folder > {movie 1} folder > "test" folder > movie.avi I would have expected: Movies/Anime/{movie 1}/movie.avi Movie naming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarsLight 0 Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 Hi. Your example above doesn't seem to be accomplishing that as it is putting a folder between the individual movie folder and the video file - not an organizational folder above the individual movie folder... I would have expected: Movies/Anime/{movie 1}/movie.avi Movie naming It's just an example... you can imagine like below: before: "Media" folder > "Movie" folder > "Zombie Movie" folder > Zombie.avi after: "Media" folder > "Movie" folder > "Terrible Movie" folder > "Zombie Movie" folder > Zombie.avi How to achieve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14959 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I would encourage you to not try and do that, or, if you must, to try and organize them into separate libraries. But, if you must, then you probably will need to use the "Unset - mixed" library type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarsLight 0 Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 What mean by separate libraries? if it means create another folder to store this change, it doesn't make sense to achieve better organizing structure. How about "Trakt'? Anyone use this to achieve same goal? If there is no any ways to keep the change folder, there may be feature / enhancement someone will hope for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37251 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I would suggest following the guidelines in our movie naming guide. Does this help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarsLight 0 Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 I would suggest following the guidelines in our movie naming guide. Does this help? It just help to improve future media, but no solution to reorganize existing file.... If we can maintain the structure by metadata manager for example, it may be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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