Posters, database or folders

[MagicPinball 3]

I know how the images are stored in both criteria. (The database simply stores the location of a poster in the file structure. The folders contain the video and the poster.)

My question is: Are there strong points to store the data in folders or the database?

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what data are you referring to?

[MagicPinball 3]

Data being the images, e.g. posters

[Luke 42077]

OK so what exactly are you asking? I think the benefit of doing it this way is that you can see the image files when you are browsing your file system.

[Happy2Play 9780]

29 minutes ago, MagicPinball said:

My question is: Are there strong points to store the data in folders or the database?

If stored with media it is easily recovered if anything happens to db.

Now if you have a system that your libraries go offline or become unavailable you system could be trying to rebuild itself a lot and db only info could be lost.

But I guess if you have a good backup system in place the I guess it really doesn't matter. 

Edited January 20 by Happy2Play

[Neminem 1518]

4 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

But I guess if you have a good backup system in place the I guess it really doesn't matter. 

But how many home / family user would have that

[MagicPinball 3]

I really do not have a backup to my media library. I store all my media (Movies, TV Shows, Music, Family Pictures) on a NAS drive (which is not a backup) as Raid 1, so they are redundant. (My family pics and music are backed up.)

Speaking about backup, for Emby I only backup library.db. I figure is any issue arises, I could refresh all posters, people, etc.

Next important step.

1. How do I switch from database to folders?
2. Will this affect my "Watched" flag for TV Shows or Movies?
3. Any gotchas to watch out for?
4. Recommendations?

 

[Neminem 1518]

40 minutes ago, MagicPinball said:

How do I switch from database to folders?

Try this plugin.

[Neminem 1518]

42 minutes ago, MagicPinball said:

Will this affect my "Watched" flag for TV Shows or Movies?

Not if you don't start over, without a emby backup.

[MagicPinball 3]

Thank you Neminem. I would like to try this manually.

From what I read, these are the steps:

1. For each Library (TV Shows, Movies, Music, etc.) turn on "Save artwork into media folders" located in each library. (I don't think there is a global switch)
2. Rescan all libraries
3. Wait awhile. Maybe click on an item or two on the home screen of Emby
4. Delete the contents: /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/metadata/library directory

This is on a Synology NAS.

Can anyone verify this for me? Anything else to do?

Edited January 21 by MagicPinball

[Luke 42077]

4 minutes ago, MagicPinball said:

Thank you Neminem. I would like to try this manually.

From what I read, these are the steps:

1. For each Library (TV Shows, Movies, Music, etc.) turn on "Save artwork into media folders" located in each library. (I don't think there is a global switch)
2. Rescan all libraries
3. Wait awhile. Maybe click on an item or two on the home screen of Emby
4. Delete the contents: /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/metadata/library directory

Can anyone verify this for me? Anything else to do?

The normal library scan will not move images from the old configured location to the new one. You will need to refresh metadata on existing content after changing the setting, if that's what you want to do.