emby removes poster.jpg from tvshow folder

[fatshotty 4]

Hello
i experiencing some stranges with poster.jpg files saved into tvshows/movies folders.
It seems that emby removes those files after updating metadata. 
my libraries configuration was including "save images into folders" and "pre-download all images" . Indeed emby generated all posters file into each folder, that's correct!
That's what I expected ,wow.
But now, navigating into my libraries (tvshows and movies) emby becomes very slow because it accesses the filesytem for reading poster.jpg files and responds them to my client app. It took some seconds for each item
That's odd! I think emby should get poster.jpg and save them into its metadata/cache folder in order to read the files from there and keep fast listing

However, today I modified settings of my libraries unselecting "save images" and "pre-download images".
A new "update metadata" job has started and now there are no poster.jpg files into folders 
into emby logfile I read: 
```
Image encoding using Skia to /config/cache/temp/22599d1f66644d90a0ccd28c176bcd23.webp took 5938ms for /path/to/my/folder/media/movies/Teen Wolf - Il film (2023)/fanart.jpg. Now moving to /config/cache/images/resized-images/c/c4064f3a-4008-aab4-d5ff-8fcf8ff073be.webp
```
indeed /path/to/my/folder/media/movies/Teen Wolf - Il film (2023)/fanart.jpg doesn't exist into movie folder anymore

Any help about that?

[Neminem 1518]

Are you using Radarr ?

Have the movie been updated by Radarr ?

[Luke 42078]

Hi, Emby does not move your image files? Why do you think Emby did this?

Or is that you don't know why it happened?

[fatshotty 4]

3 hours ago, jaycedk said:

Are you using Radarr ?

Have the movie been updated by Radarr ?

No, radar doen't access my movies folder

[fatshotty 4]

34 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, Emby does not move your image files? Why do you think Emby did this?

Or is that you don't know why it happened?

I read into logfile that emby moves my poster.jpg and fanart.jpg files into its cache folder. 

Indeed there are no fanart.jpg nor poster.jpg into movies folder, now.

Why emby moves those files? I think emby should read those file without moving them

[Luke 42078]

5 minutes ago, fatshotty said:

I read into logfile that emby moves my poster.jpg and fanart.jpg files into its cache folder. 

Indeed there are no fanart.jpg nor poster.jpg into movies folder, now.

Why emby moves those files? I think emby should read those file without moving them

Emby doesn't move your images. What log file entry do you mean? It may have just been making a copy, but it doesn't touch your original images.

[fatshotty 4]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Emby doesn't move your images. What log file entry do you mean? It may have just been making a copy, but it doesn't touch your original images.

Thanks for reply

As per my first message, once I unchecked "save image" and "pre-download all images" in tvshows and movies libraries settings, after "update metadati",  all poster.jpg and fanart.jpg are disappeared.

I have no poster.jpg files into my movies folder.

In logfile I see "fanart.jpg. Now moving to /config/cache/images/resized-images/c/c4064f3a-4008-aab4-d5ff-8fcf8ff073be.webp" 

Should I check somethings else?

thanks

[Luke 42078]

17 minutes ago, fatshotty said:

 

In logfile I see "fanart.jpg. Now moving to /config/cache/images/resized-images/c/c4064f3a-4008-aab4-d5ff-8fcf8ff073be.webp" 

This has nothing to do with the images in your media folders. An Emby app requested an image from the server at a specific size, then the server resized the image and saved the output to /config/cache/resized/xxx

That's all it did. Again, the server did not move your original images, but if you can attach a complete emby server log, then i can tell you what it was doing at a given point in time.

[fatshotty 4]

29 minutes ago, Luke said:

This has nothing to do with the images in your media folders. An Emby app requested an image from the server at a specific size, then the server resized the image and saved the output to /config/cache/resized/xxx

That's all it did. Again, the server did not move your original images, but if you can attach a complete emby server log, then i can tell you what it was doing at a given point in time.

Ok thanks

[fatshotty 4]

Hi,
I just reproduce the problem as per attached screens (sort by number  )
1) no poster / fanart in movie folder
2) enable "save images" and "predownload images"
3) refresh all metadata
4) poster / fanart appear into movie folder
5) disable "save images" and "predonwload images"
6) refresh all metadata
7) poster / fanart disappear from movie folder

here is the portion of log file about my tests
https://pastebin.com/j2qJHyaG

[Luke 42078]

It's because you clicked replace existing image, so that's how it works. Your existing image gets deleted and a new one is downloaded.

[fatshotty 4]

ok, got it
that makes sense
however, I would like to make emby uses my poster/fanart file, but I need emby copies those file into its metadata folder in order to make listing fast.
Let me explain:
I have a rclone mount with all my movies and tvshows files (and folder, of course). I noticed that emby is very slow while listing my contents because rclone is slow accessing poster/fanart files.
So i'd like to make emby uses my personal poster/fanart at the first point, but I need emby copies those file into its metadata folder and uses them (from there) in order to make listing very fast.

Hope this is clear what I mean

thanks in advance

[Luke 42078]

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but I need emby copies those file into its metadata folder in order to make listing fast.

There is currently no option to do this but this question has come up before and it's something we'll be adding in future updates. Thanks.

[fatshotty 4]

many thanks