Maintain "viewed" status following changed media location

[Treecrusher 5]

I'm making some changes to the layout of my physical hard drives which has meant I've need to change my media location paths in Emby. The File structure has remained unchanged, just instead of the path being M:/Movies... and M:/TV Shows... it is now X:/Movies... and Y:/TV Shows...

 

Emby has started rebuilding the meta data from scratch, which is ok other than I don't want to loose my "viewed" status for each episode/movie. Is there a way to copy my "viewed" status over to the new file paths?

 

Thanks.

[bluemonkey07 590]

While doing this change it would be a good idea to use UNC paths to your media (or path substitution) .

 

If you had done this originally you wouldnt be having this problem now, it has alot of other benefits too

Edited July 12, 2015 by Vidman

[Treecrusher 5]

While doing this change it would be a good idea to use UNC paths to your media (or path substitution) .

 

If you had done this originally you wouldnt be having this problem now, it has alot of other benefits too

Well, that is a lesson learnt. I have just changed my setup to UNC paths now. 

 

Unfortunately that doesn't solve my current problem. Any ideas on that? Thanks again.

[bluemonkey07 590]

not really, theres a couple of things I would have suggested before you made the change, but dont think theyll work after you have already made the change. It is possible your watched status may be intact anyway as I think it is based on tvdb/tmdb id rather than filename/location, so after everything is scanned in again they may be set correctly. 

[Treecrusher 5]

I still have the the other drive and paths intact, and can easily change it back if there is something that I should do before changing the paths in Emby?

[AdrianW 1058]

Viewed status should always be retained as it is based on ID not on path.

 

I often move my content (e.g. from a "New Releases" folder to an Archive folder) - and view status is retained for me.

Edited July 12, 2015 by AdrianW

[Treecrusher 5]

Viewed status should always be retained as it is based on ID not on path.

 

I often move my content (e.g. from a "New Releases" folder to an Archive folder) - and view status is retained for me.

 

Ok, but for whatever reason it hasn't come across with my change. Does anybody know exactly which file the Emby viewed status information is saved in?

[bluemonkey07 590]

Well I would have suggested backing up to trakt as the first option or you could have set metadata to your media folders

[Happy2Play 9783]

Ok, but for whatever reason it hasn't come across with my change. Does anybody know exactly which file the Emby viewed status information is saved in?

Have you let a library scan complete?

 

I believe the status is in the userdata_v2.db.

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/10427-how-to-migrate-media-browser-server/

[Treecrusher 5]

Thanks for the tip. Never used Trakt 

 

Have you let a library scan complete?

 

I believe the status is in the userdata_v2.db.

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/10427-how-to-migrate-media-browser-server/

Excellent! Thanks. I have everything working now. 

 

Vidman - Thank you for your help too. I've signed up to Trackt too, so these problems shouldn't exist in the future. 

 

Thanks again everyone for your help.

[ebr 16185]

You probably just needed to let the scan complete so that all the items could be properly identified and bring in the tmdb IDs which is what we key the user data on.