mastrmind11 717 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 When I started my collection of movies I just dumped them to a single /movies folder. As time went on, I started putting them in /Movie (Year) folders. Now it's ugly and annoying. I can script the conversion pretty easily but I'm wondering whether Emby will treat them as new movies (clutter my latest, remove watched status, etc) if I do this. Lemme know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37254 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 They will be new items in the database, yes, but if you have nfo files then your date added will be preserved and it won't affect latest lists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8356 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) If you do not have metadata with the media then yes emby will treat everything as new as the info only reside in the database and renaming removes, then re-adds the item to the database with a new itemid. Existing metadata with media will alway be read if present. As for watched status it is tracked by providerids so only items without externalid will loose watched status. Edited September 20, 2019 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 great. just so i'm 100%, if i have trakt setup AND move the metadata, nothing UI related will change with these things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8356 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 I know nothing about trakt, I have xml files with my media and can move media where ever I like and Emby reads the existing metadata when re-adding the media (xml metadata plugin in my case). Nfo metadata is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) I know nothing about trakt, I have xml files with my media and can move media where ever I like and Emby reads the existing metadata when re-adding the media (xml metadata plugin in my case). Nfo metadata is the same. ok cool, i have nfo metadata so i'll go for it. thanks for the info. edit: did it yesterday and it worked out nicely. thanks for the info, all. Edited September 23, 2019 by mastrmind11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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