Moving Files Results In New Metadata

[kbeck 64]

Every so often I have to move files from one drive to another to make room. It's only once or twice a year so I forget how without losing metadata. Have to move 3-400 GB at a time. It results in about half losing all metadata as if they were new adds. How can I prevent this?
 

Thought maybe copying files instead of moving??? Letting the server scan and then deleting the old files?? Turning off the real-time monitoring??

 

 

[Luke 42078]

Hi, do you have nfo files next to your media? That's the best way to preserve metadata.

[kbeck 64]

On 4/11/2025 at 3:25 PM, Luke said:

Hi, do you have nfo files next to your media? That's the best way to preserve metadata.

I do but I've noticed that because of the lag time copying 1 GB files across the network the real time monitoring sometimes creates new .nfo files before the old ones are copied. That's why I thought turning off Real Time Monitoring might help. I'll try that next time and see if it helps.

[Luke 42078]

In that situation, yes it might help to do that.