Moving existing content to new disk. Content seen has new media.

[bennymac 47]

Hi All,

I'm running Emby on Windows version 4.7.14.0 and have added a new disk for expansion and need to move existing media (movies) to the new drive.

As per https://emby.media/support/articles/New-Media-Date-Handling.html?q=moving existing media i have changed the date behavior to use the data scanned when the media was added to the library - hoping to preserve the date and not having it seen as "new"

 

 

I've then moved some movies content between the libraries (cut and paste) but the moved data is added to "Latest Movies" 

 

For each of the above example Emby shows the moved data with a "dated added" of today when i moved the media.

This doesn't seem right?

 

[rbjtech 5284]

You need to use 'file creation date' ?

If you had selected 'date scanned into library' then it's going to think they are new - and they are because they will have new unique id's as the old item would be removed from the db and new item 'found' are re-identified (and given a new unique id).

If you use file creation date - then this value in the file itself should never change - look at the properties on the 'moved' file to see - this should remain the same.

Edited October 12, 2023 by rbjtech

[bennymac 47]

 

1 hour ago, rbjtech said:

You need to use 'file creation date' ?

If you had selected 'date scanned into library' then it's going to think they are new - and they are because they will have new unique id's as the old item would be removed from the db and new item 'found' are re-identified (and given a new unique id).

If you use file creation date - then this value in the file itself should never change - look at the properties on the 'moved' file to see - this should remain the same.

@rbjtechThanks heaps. I agree with you here but something it's not working consistently. I think i might have found it.

So I changed it to use the file creation date and moved some folders. But when i went to the Web app some movies were appearing as new.

EXAMPLE:

As the files are moving Emby is downloading updated metadata - eg. the poster.jpg before all the contents of the folder have moved.

That makes sense because it's actively monitoring library folders for new content

Before the end of the file move I'm seeing Windows asking to overwrite files as the same file names already in the new destination folder.

If i hit overwrite then the original poster.jpg overwrites the above. Setting the Date back to original for all files.

However at that point the database must be updating before all that.

Maybe the only way to do this 100% is to shut Emby down for the content move?

 

[rbjtech 5284]

5 minutes ago, bennymac said:

Maybe the only way to do this 100% is to shut Emby down for the content move?

Yes ! Sorry, I presumed you had done this before moving things around on the OS.

Emby will 'sort itself out' when you restart it.

For the odd one or two items - then no need - but if you are doing a bulk move - then always best to shutdown emby first.

Alternatively, move them to an area that is not monitored by emby (RTM) and then add it back or rename the root folder so that it is.  

Edited October 12, 2023 by rbjtech