When an actor matches TheMovieDb's ID, the local nfo becomes invalid?

[terse 1]

How can I prioritize using local NFOs for Emby's actors, and only use TheMovieDb or other online metadata if no local NFO is available?

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what do you mean by local nfo for actors?

[terse 1]

42 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, what do you mean by local nfo for actors?

my local nfo file is located at /home/emby/metadata/people/actor_name/person.nfo.

Its structure is within the actor_name folder:
folder.jpg person.nfo

If the actor's name does not match TheMovieDb, the actor's image and information in the nfo will be displayed. If it matches TheMovieDb but TheMovieDb does not contain actor metadata, the local nfo will fail. Emby cannot recognize it.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes a by name folder will be superceded when a name(providerid) folder is created.

In the end one could have a lot of unused by name folders depending on how old one's install is as everything at one time way just by name folder.

Once a movie pulls a actors id per the item metadata it will create said name(idfolder).  So previous local info will become obsolete.

[terse 1]

8 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

name(idfolder)

In my case, the `name(idfolder)` folder contains no metadata, which results in empty actor metadata. Where is this `name(idfolder)` folder located? I want to prioritize using the images and NFO metadata from the `name` folder.

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, terse said:

In my case, the `name(idfolder)` folder contains no metadata, which results in empty actor metadata. Where is this `name(idfolder)` folder located?

It would be right in the same place. You might just not have any.

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I want to prioritize using the images and NFO metadata from the `name` folder.

But then what will happen when you have two actors with the same name?