metadata location

[metropical 38]

I am swapping a 1TB for a 4TB in my MacPro3,1 that houses all my media on the 3 internal drives.

The server runs on a LAN connected 2018 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 mini w/64G & 500G.

Currently, that is where the metadata resides as well.

I'd either like to move the metadata folder to the new 4TB on the MacPro, or the metadata with the media option.

I will be moving most of my media around when I add the 4TB.  Is one method better than the other, w/media vs a metadata folder?

[Luke 42077]

@sa2000

[metropical 38]

I don't see what the connection is to that post.  Unless you are saying dm sa2000?

[Luke 42077]

34 minutes ago, metropical said:

I don't see what the connection is to that post.  Unless you are saying dm sa2000?

That's just me pulling him in to help with this.

[metropical 38]

ahhhhh ........

[sa2000 673]

15 hours ago, metropical said:

I'd either like to move the metadata folder to the new 4TB on the MacPro, or the metadata with the media option.

I will be moving most of my media around when I add the 4TB.  Is one method better than the other, w/media vs a metadata folder?

The option is for whether artwork is stored within the media folders. There would still be some that would go into the metadata folder,  e.g. composite library images.

I personally prefer to have the artwork / metadata separate and minimize what gets written to the media folders.

When having NFO Savers enabled, the nfo files would get stored in the media folders.

I think it is whatever you prefer. If you have lots of existing artwork within the media folders then go with the option to have them there. 

[metropical 38]

OK.  thanks.

For those who are as dim as I am, the changes are made at -

Settings/Library/3 dots/Edit/Metadata savers

and

Settings/Library/Advanced/Metadata path.