Added new library, made one mistake, all libraries are being rescanned

[Roodee 39]

Hi All,

I would consider this a problem, not really a bug.

My libraries reside at "/var/www/emby" , where they are being mounted in a sub-directory, like this:

• /var/www/emby/movies
• /var/www/emby/series
• /var/www/emby/ etc. etc.

Now I added a new library "Music", and in the configuration I pointed it to "/var/www/emby" instead of "/var/www/emby/music".  Important: this was only in the emby configuration, not in the linux operating system. The mount point was properly configured.

As a result, my emby server forgot all movies and series etc.  It showed these libraries as empty.   Basically, if it was not in the library "Music", it was gone. I quickly figured out my mistake, and added the correct path to the new library "/var/www/emby/music".

I do store the media-information in the directory with the media in the *.nfo-file, so I would have expected the damage to be minimal. However, the effect was that emby went through these directories like it had never seen them, going out to the web for posters and subtitles etc.  I think it was even recreating the previews (*.bif) although they were there. (I stopped the scan, set the option "Generate video preview thumbnails" to never, and started the scan again).

So, right now, my library is without any imagery and movies are not identified and not grouped. Not sure if that is how it ought to work. I would have hoped to be more robust to a human error like this. 

Not sure if anyone even wants to try to recreate this. Any comments welcome.

Cheerios,
Roodee

[Luke 42078]

Hi, yes it's because that folder is already partially used in other libraries, which is something that is not officially supported right now. It's something we plan to accommodate in future updates but we're not quite there yet. Thanks.