Library Metadata All Messed Up - How To Start Fresh Again?

[coltonyyz 10]

Hello!

I had to format my hard drive and reintall Windows. I managed to copy my programdata folder before doing so. I reinstalled Windows, then Emby Server. I then copied the programdata folder overwrighting the files that were in there. But my library metadata (images primarily) are not showing up for almost everything.

How do I start over (ugh) again so that Emby will re-add all the images again?

Thank you!

[guunter 49]

11 minutes ago, coltonyyz said:

Hello!

I had to format my hard drive and reintall Windows. I managed to copy my programdata folder before doing so. I reinstalled Windows, then Emby Server. I then copied the programdata folder overwrighting the files that were in there. But my library metadata (images primarily) are not showing up for almost everything.

How do I start over (ugh) again so that Emby will re-add all the images again?

Thank you!

When you refresh Metadata you have the option of replacing existing images.

[coltonyyz 10]

Yes, I am doing that now but it's extremely slow. It's done 5 TV Shows in 10 mins. I simply want to delete everything that's already stored in the folder of what I copied over, and start fresh.

[coltonyyz 10]

It's been 4 hours, and Emby still says it's 90% completed scanning only 1 folder... but it's not. Take a look at this screen print. You can see it's no where near 90%.  My library is messed up and I don't know how to erase it and start fresh except uninstall Emby and start fresh that way. I really don't want to do that because of all my other settings and users set up.

[sa2000 674]

5 hours ago, coltonyyz said:

How do I start over (ugh) again so that Emby will re-add all the images again

 

57 minutes ago, coltonyyz said:

My library is messed up and I don't know how to erase it and start fresh except uninstall Emby and start fresh that way. I really don't want to do that because of all my other settings and users set up.

It is either an uninstall - removing or renaming "%AppData%\Emby-Server\programdata" or as advised to continue but select the replace all images when refreshing metadata

If you do start over with a fresh install - suggest before doing that, you unlink any embyconnect links to user accounts beofore recreating them after the fresh install

[coltonyyz 10]

Is there a way to save the Users that I've set up if I go to remove/reinstall?

[sa2000 674]

21 minutes ago, coltonyyz said:

Is there a way to save the Users that I've set up if I go to remove/reinstall?

I never tried that - you could see if saving these would work:

There is a "%Appdata%\programdata\config\users" folder with a folder for each user

To go with this, there is a database "%Appdata%\programdata\data\users.db" and if server not shutdown tidily or is running then also ".db-shm" and ".db-wal" files

and basic server configuration in "%Appdata%\programdata\config\system.xml"