Moving files into folders, what is the impact?

[podonnell 47]

I realized my TV show library was not using Season folders for the most part, so I went and added all the season folders.

I started the library scan and it is taking a very long time -- what exactly is the impact that this has?
Similarly, whenever I rename a file or such, does it take actions A, B, and C.. every time? Or can it know that we previously had that file / episode and it doesn't need to process it?

If it does process, will I potentially lose things like intros I have fixed or any other metadata? What should I watch out for?

[podonnell 47]

My library scan has been running about 20-30 minutes and stuck at the moment as well.

[darkassassin07 652]

Any time the path to/name of a media file changes, Emby interprets it as the previous file has been removed (so is removed from your emby servers database), and the renamed/moved file is a new file, imported/processed as new media.

 

If you've moved all your episode files into season folders; Emby will be reprocessing all your tv shows as if they were new media, and this will take a while. Longer depending on your libraries configuration (extracting thumbnail images, chapter markers, downloading all related images in advance, etc). The percentage progress for library scans is quite misleading, showing the first ~%90 done reasonably quick then seemingly hanging, but it is still working. You can verify this by monitoring Embys log files.

 

Just gonna have to be patient.

[podonnell 47]

Thank you, will stick it out. It shows as almost all of my shows are gone currently.

Do I have to worry about any duplicated data clogging up the DB? Or when a file is removed, does that stuff get fully purged?

Also, what happens in this circumstance if I had .NFO files? That just handles metadata only, not anything about images I've replaced, etc..?

Edited October 25, 2024 by podonnell

[darkassassin07 652]

Na, emby should handle maintaining its DB.

 

If you have 'NFO' enabled under 'Metadata readers' in that library, nfo files will provide some of the metadata; but the majority of the time consuming tasks still need to be done, so it doesn't speed things up all that much. Mostly just helps ensure media is correctly identified, 'date added' dates are maintained.