Safe NFO files on different location (not next to the media files)

[Skyfay 19]

Hey,
Is there a way to save the NFO files to a certain location and ask Emby to read them from there too?
The problem for me is that movies are often wrongly assigned and when I reindex them I have to go through everything again.
In this case I use the NFO function, since that no longer happens.
However, emby cannot write to the location where my media are, so I would like to save them somewhere else.
Is that possible?

Thanks for help!

[GrimReaper 4740]

2 hours ago, Skyfay said:

Is that possible?

Nope. It's either NFOs with media or no NFOs (db only). 

[Skyfay 19]

21 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Nope. It's either NFOs with media or no NFOs (db only). 

Hmm ok.
It would be cool if Emby would implement the fact that if media is no longer available, the entries remain and then the media are simply displayed as offline.
Because otherwise the entries are always deleted directly from the database when the media are no longer available.

[Tangsgod 22]

4 hours ago, Skyfay said:

Hmm ok.
It would be cool if Emby would implement the fact that if media is no longer available, the entries remain and then the media are simply displayed as offline.
Because otherwise the entries are always deleted directly from the database when the media are no longer available.

I agree, they should remain until we decide to clean the database / empty the trash

[n8tie 1]

mergerfs when on linux.

1st dir /my/metadata

2nd dir  /my/media

both get merged to /my/merged

/usr/bin/mergerfs /my/metadata:/my/media /my/merged -o rw,use_ino,allow_other,func.getattr=newest,category.action=all,category.create=ff,cache.files=partial,dropcacheonclose=true

when running emby/whatever that writes to the merged directory, the written files are created in the metadata directory, leaving the media directory untouched.

read about it and give it a try. i will never go back to one folder.

https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs

 

 

 

 

 

[Skyfay 19]

@n8tie That sounds interesting.

I work with docker, I would have to see how I could manage that.

looks a bit complicated to me at first, but I'll read up on it.