Way to move movie poster, thumbnails etc...

[AJV_20 57]

I recently transfered my emby server to truenas and installed in on nvme drives. It used to be on hard drives but I wanted to improve the speed and latency of the server. The problem is, I'm still using the hard drives to store my media on a synology nas, and I used to have all the artwork next to the media. Is there a way to move the artwork to the metadata folder on the truenas server? I know I can refresh everything but I chose every artwork and don't want them all to be replaced randomly.

[Luke 42077]

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I know I can refresh everything

Hi, this is the only built-in way.

[Clackdor 109]

31 minutes ago, AJV_20 said:

I recently transfered my emby server to truenas and installed in on nvme drives. It used to be on hard drives but I wanted to improve the speed and latency of the server. The problem is, I'm still using the hard drives to store my media on a synology nas, and I used to have all the artwork next to the media. Is there a way to move the artwork to the metadata folder on the truenas server? I know I can refresh everything but I chose every artwork and don't want them all to be replaced randomly.

If you still have your images next to media and want to keep it that way you can enable the option in each library to keep a cached copy of images in the metadata folder. All of your images will still be stored next to the media, but emby will copy them over to the metadata folder and read from that copy. You'll have to turn on this setting for each library individually and then do a scan of the server's metadata folder for emby to start copying the existing images.

[tedfroop21 86]

5 hours ago, AJV_20 said:

I recently transfered my emby server to truenas and installed in on nvme drives. It used to be on hard drives but I wanted to improve the speed and latency of the server. The problem is, I'm still using the hard drives to store my media on a synology nas, and I used to have all the artwork next to the media. Is there a way to move the artwork to the metadata folder on the truenas server? I know I can refresh everything but I chose every artwork and don't want them all to be replaced randomly.

It's not official or guaranteed to work, and it requires everything to be in EXACTLY the same place. (drive names, data file locations etc.) 

You can install Emby,  then copy the previous Emby application directory over the install.

I have done it but as said, it requires things to be in the same place so all file references  are the same.  My system is set up with the OS on its own drive,  my data on one or more other drives IE: The OS can fail or the OS can be upgraded/replaced without affecting data. Last time I did it I started from scratch (linux) and the  OS drive name stays consistent always, then named the mount points the same as previous using the disks utility.

I used to use the same strategy to restore Windows machines and data for users.  

Edited November 1, 2025 by tedfroop21

[GrimReaper 4739]

4 hours ago, tedfroop21 said:

It's not official or guaranteed to work, and it requires everything to be in EXACTLY the same place. (drive names, data file locations etc.) 

You can install Emby,  then copy the previous Emby application directory over the install.

I have done it but as said, it requires things to be in the same place so all file references  are the same.  My system is set up with the OS on its own drive,  my data on one or more other drives IE: The OS can fail or the OS can be upgraded/replaced without affecting data. Last time I did it I started from scratch (linux) and the  OS drive name stays consistent always, then named the mount points the same as previous using the disks utility.

I used to use the same strategy to restore Windows machines and data for users.  

Are you sure you've replied in the tight topic? As I don't see how does that relate to OP's query. 

[Luke 42077]

@AJV_20has this helped?

[AJV_20 57]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

@AJV_20has this helped?

Not really, I turned on the copy to metadata option but it only does it for new files and not the previous ones

[Luke 42077]

19 minutes ago, AJV_20 said:

Not really, I turned on the copy to metadata option but it only does it for new files and not the previous ones

Correct yes.

[Clackdor 109]

5 hours ago, AJV_20 said:

Not really, I turned on the copy to metadata option but it only does it for new files and not the previous ones

Have you tried doing a manual scan of the servers metadata folder? IIRC that's what I needed to do to get emby to start copying existing images from next to media to the metadata folder.

[Luke 42077]

16 hours ago, Clackdor said:

Have you tried doing a manual scan of the servers metadata folder? IIRC that's what I needed to do to get emby to start copying existing images from next to media to the metadata folder.

Hi, the only reason you would need to run the scan metadata folder scheduled task is explained in the description for it.