Mount points in Windows ignored

[jan_axhell 4]

I use EMBY mainly as a movie database, so since offline stuff gets removed from view, I wanted a way to keep all the info accessible. In an unrelated discussion, Cayars suggested to use mount points. I did try that in the past with mixed results, but yesterday I wanted to try again. Unfortunately this time it doesn't work at all.

If I map external drive P: as internal folder O:\EMBY\Movies01 and scan library/metadata of that particular drive, EMBY does nothing. If I combine P: with O:\EMBY\Movies01 in folders selections, EMBY does scan the drive, but when I swap it with another, everything from drive 01 is removed. If I launch Scan Library from Scheduled tasks, EMBY scans everything except that mount point.

In Windows I can browse the contents of P: from O:\EMBY\Movies01 and just use it as normal, but for EMBY that is an empty folder.

I have also tried to Share O:\EMBY\Movies01 and add it as optional shared folder, but nothing changes, it's still an "empty" folder. Also changed folder permissions from RO to RW.

I can only scan drives with their own real letter, not a mount point. 

Any advice?

[Luke 42081]

Hi there, please run a library scan and then attach the emby server log. Thanks.

[jan_axhell 4]

Here it is. I have attached P: drive which mounted to O:\EMBY\MoviesHD01, stopped all Scheduled Tasks and run a Scan Library on Movies Library, which points to both P: and O:\EMBY\MoviesHD01. I had to do that, without P: nothing happens.

embyserver.txt embyserver-63776332800.txt hardware_detection-63776332101.txt

[Luke 42081]

How many Emby libraries have you created, and what folder paths did you add to each one?

[Happy2Play 9782]

Are drive letters changing?

2021-12-28 23:49:01.785 Info LibraryMonitor: Skipping realtime monitor for M:\ because the path does not exist
2021-12-28 23:49:01.785 Info LibraryMonitor: Skipping realtime monitor for N:\Shared Drives\Movies HD 18 because the path does not exist
2021-12-28 23:49:01.785 Info LibraryMonitor: Skipping realtime monitor for N:\Shared Drives\Movies HD 19 because the path does not exist
2021-12-28 23:49:01.785 Info LibraryMonitor: Skipping realtime monitor for N:\Shared Drives\Movies HD 20 because the path does not exist
2021-12-28 23:49:01.785 Info LibraryMonitor: Skipping realtime monitor for N:\Shared Drives\Movies HD 21 because the path does not exist
2021-12-28 23:49:01.786 Info LibraryMonitor: Watching directory P:\
2021-12-28 23:49:01.786 Info LibraryMonitor: Watching directory O:\
2021-12-28 23:49:01.786 Info LibraryMonitor: Watching directory S:\
2021-12-28 23:49:01.786 Info LibraryMonitor: Watching directory Q:\
2021-12-28 23:49:01.786 Info LibraryMonitor: Watching directory X:\- Instagram

 

[jan_axhell 4]

M: is a temp library I use for the HDD I'm currently filling to download posters and art, and I have disconnected it to avoid useless scan in this test.

N:\Shared Drives was my old experiment that produced mixed results, but is no more, those are bogus links, there is no folder anymore in N:

I gott rid of those now. 

S:, Q: and X: are Music, Videomusic and Instagram Libraries always online.

P: is the HDD I'm trying to scan as mount point, which leads to O:\EMBY\MoviesHD01

I have made a new scan of the entire library cleared from bogus stuff. Attached new logs, sorry for the mess.

PS I opened a new topic here because it was a different problem than the one discussed in the Actors database post.

embyserver.txt hardware_detection-63776364499.txt embyserver-63776364465.txt

[jan_axhell 4]

Ok, it was my fault. Thank you all for making me notice there was too much litter. After cleaning the bogus links leftovers, the mount point strategy works fine, I can see data from 3 different drives even if they're all offline. And for me that is a DREAM.

There is only one catch: to do that I had to scan libraries disabling "save artwork into media folders", but since I also want to have artwork/nfo along with media to make disks self-contained, I had to scan each disk twice, with that switch active and then inactive. Any way to do it only in one passage? It takes about 30 mins each and I still have 40+ drives to scan..

At first I just used the switch on, supposing everything would be stored locally AND into media folders, but when I swapped disk 01 with 02, all movies from 01 appeared as empty slots. Only after double scan in both ways I managed to have permanent data for offline drives.

[Luke 42081]

Thanks for the feedback.

[jan_axhell 4]

Ok, I've scanned 7 HDD's. Despite the fact that mount points work, EMBY randomly forgets artworks.

What I do is:

- connect an HDD and mount it as folder

- start EMBY, add folder to library

- enable "Save artwork into media folders" switch, so EMBY stores artwork and nfo on HDD

- scan Library

- disable "Save artwork into media folders" switch, so EMBY stores artwork and nfo in local database as well

- scan library

- exit EMBY, disconnect HDD, connect next HDD, repeat process

For the first 5 HDD's everything seemed to work fine, then I started noticing empty slots in 6 and 7. I have checked HDD's and they contain all the artwork/nfo,

I have scanned several more times the same HDD's in both enabled/disabled mode, but empty slots keep appearing here and there with no pattern.

I have plenty of space for both local cache and data stored on HDD's, so I cannot figure why some pieces keep vanishing.

embyserver-63776504956.txt

[Happy2Play 9782]

7 minutes ago, jan_axhell said:

- start EMBY, add folder to library

- enable "Save artwork into media folders" switch, so EMBY stores artwork and nfo on HDD

- scan Library

- disable "Save artwork into media folders" switch, so EMBY stores artwork and nfo in local database as well

- scan library

Sorry it does not work that way.

But sounds like you want the precache option that does not exist.

Preemptively cache images - Feature Requests - Emby Community

 

[Luke 42081]

3 hours ago, jan_axhell said:

Ok, I've scanned 7 HDD's. Despite the fact that mount points work, EMBY randomly forgets artworks.

What I do is:

- connect an HDD and mount it as folder

- start EMBY, add folder to library

- enable "Save artwork into media folders" switch, so EMBY stores artwork and nfo on HDD

- scan Library

- disable "Save artwork into media folders" switch, so EMBY stores artwork and nfo in local database as well

- scan library

- exit EMBY, disconnect HDD, connect next HDD, repeat process

For the first 5 HDD's everything seemed to work fine, then I started noticing empty slots in 6 and 7. I have checked HDD's and they contain all the artwork/nfo,

I have scanned several more times the same HDD's in both enabled/disabled mode, but empty slots keep appearing here and there with no pattern.

I have plenty of space for both local cache and data stored on HDD's, so I cannot figure why some pieces keep vanishing.

embyserver-63776504956.txt 23.97 MB · 1 download

As the help text in the library options dialog indicates, changing options such as that will not retroactively go back and modify existing content in your library. It only applies to new content going forward, or new metadata downloads on existing content.

[jan_axhell 4]

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Sorry it does not work that way.

But sounds like you want the precache option that does not exist.

Preemptively cache images - Feature Requests - Emby Community

I did that as Cayars suggested in the other thread. So in the end there is no way to have a complete index of everything. I've added a +1 to the Preemptively cache images , but looks like it's not a priority. 

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As the help text in the library options dialog indicates, changing options such as that will not retroactively go back and modify existing content in your library. It only applies to new content going forward, or new metadata downloads on existing content.

I don't understand this sentence: I add stuff, but at some point stuff start to disappear. I scan again and some stuff is readded, other removed. What am I doing retroactively?

[Luke 42081]

6 hours ago, jan_axhell said:

 

I don't understand this sentence: I add stuff, but at some point stuff start to disappear. I scan again and some stuff is readded, other removed. What am I doing retroactively?

Let's look at a specific example: 

Thanks.

 

[jan_axhell 4]

I swear I don't understand what you mean. I've asked in community, described the problem as blind, included logs. You mean I haven't mentioned version? It's the latest, 4.6.7.0 for Windows, but that info is in the logs.. Here is a screenshot. It is taken with no HDD connected, all you see is cached. For some reason the are holes. The art that goes there is present on the HDDs. If I rescan them, some art reappears and some other disappears. It's like there is a limit beyond which Emby doesn't want to go. The first 5 HDDs produced no hole.

 

[Luke 42081]

@jan_axhell are you still running into this?

[jan_axhell 4]

Last time I checked yes, I have scanned my complete collection, but pictures disappeared here and there for no reason. Unfortunately meanwhile I had a system crash and I am slowly restoring/reconfiguring everything. I haven't lost my EMBY configuration and cache, but I won't manage that for at least two weeks. When I'm set, I'll test again and get beck here.

[Luke 42081]

Ok @cayars can jump on with you and take a look. Thanks.

[Carlo 4561]

@jan_axhell I just sent you a PM to set up a remote support session with you.

Carlo