Library Real Time Monitoring needs SAFETY CHECK

[MacGyver27 20]

Hello,

I have a scenario where one of my libraries sits on the external HDD enclosure. I want to have for it Real Time Monitoring enabled but there is a catch.. sometimes happens this external HDD enclosure has connectivity issues or after reboot it did not get properly mounted to the Linux file system and Emby starts purging everything related to it. This is huge pain in case such library is 50k home video files - everything needs to be rebuild from scratch, which can take weeks! I know it kind of makes sense of Real Time Monitoring feature but I would propose to implement a safety check that the library is actually present on the file system. I know this is difficult to detect properly when Emby server is inside docker, but something simple like: If any specified folder is entirely empty, skip the synchronization for it.

So before triggering the real time sync perform for both of this folders this empty folder check:

• IF contains SOMETHING -> sync
• IF contains NOTHING -> skip

I would do this safety check also when triggered manually, because many times user don't even notice the external HDD enclosure is not mounted.. 99% of cases user finds out when his media are missing in the Emby library.. In order to sync on these empty libraries user would need to disable safety check.

 

Solution:

Edited 45 minutes ago by MacGyver27