duplicate people folders in metadata

[ctfo 0]

Hi, I recently upgraded from 4.5 (ubuntu) to 4.7 (docker), and have noticed the metadata folder now contains a folder "People" and a separate folder "people".  The "People" folder contains subfolders with letters of the alphabet, which in turn contain subfolders with names.  The "people" folder is new, and contains subfolders with names-tvdb-####.  The "people" folder is growing (new folders being added).  Anything I should do here?  Is the "P" folder being ignored?

[ctfo 0]

Would love some feedback on this.

I love Emby (seriously it's great and well worth the money) but upgrades are painful.  There's always something that breaks.  My music library is a mess after the last upgrade.  Maybe I'm doing it wrong?  Should I have gone from 4.5 to 4.6 to 4.7?

[ctfo 0]

Ok, maybe I'm going about this wrong.  Is there documentation somewhere of what the metadata folder structure is supposed to look like in 4.7?

[pwhodges 2012]

On Windows, I have just "People".  But Windows is not case sensitive, so if there is some new code using "people" it wouldn't cause a new directory to be created.  My "People" directory contains both the sets of folders you mention.

Paul

[ctfo 0]

Thanks for the feedback.  It's unclear if the use of both lowercase/uppercase is a bug, or if the "P" folder (or its content) is deprecated.  To your point, Windows is case insensitive, so when accessing the folders from Windows explorer I see both the People and people folders, but selecting either brings me to the "People" folder, effectively making the other folder inaccessible.

Pardon to the devs if this is coming across as nitpicking, I just would like to minimize the size of the metadata folder for backup purposes.  I went ahead and deleted the "People" folder (made a backup first, then ran a metadata scan), and it didn't seem to have any adverse effect.

 

[Luke 42083]

Hi, unfortunately all of this is due to just changing conventions over time, for better or for worse.