Rogue NFOs

[theusedversion 36]

I hope that I am posting in the correct section.  So I am a realtively new user.  Started about a couple of months ago, I'm guessing.  I initially had my videos setup in a different way.  I had all of my movies in a "Movies" folder except when they had two or more parts or if they had subtitles.  Soon after I switched to Emby, I realized, after some advice on the forum, that I should change my file structure to having all of my movies in separate folders and saving the metadata, pictures, etc in there.  I love it.  However, ever since I made this change, I am still getting nfos created in the previous "Movies" folder even though I have moved all the movies into their own separate folders.  At first, I just thought it would eventually get itself sorted but I have deleted these nfos dozens and dozens of times over the past couple of months and they keep getting recreated and I don't know why.  How can I stop these rogue nfos from being created?  Also, I believe it is causing my search function to show an incorrect duplicate.  But I don't get a duplicate in the Metadata Manager or when I am just browsing the movies.  Only on search.

Ok, this is hard to show because there are so many folders in there but all that is in this folder is the movie folders and these rogue nfos both which you can see.  Notice the 2001 Space Odyssey nfo.  And the address bar.

 

Now within this same folder, I have moved the 2001 Space Odyssey movie to it's own folder (which I explained earlier) and you can see this via the address bar.  It has it's own nfo and all the art downloaded.

 

So no matter how many times I delete those nfos in the first picture, they keep coming back.  I believe this also causes a problem with search.  Every time I search for a movie, I get two results.  One is the correct one and the other is not.

 

Any thoughts on what the problem is?

[theusedversion 36]

Also, I am using the latest version that was pushed out a few hours ago.

 

The duplicate search titles also show up in Emby Theater as well.

[MrFlibbles 21]

I'd say your assumption that the duplicate nfos are causing duplicate search results is correct.

 

As to why the duplicate nfos are being created I am not quite sure. Do you by any chance have your base folder g:\movies in your media library as well as g:\movies\movies?

 

Not that it will help this issue but I would recommend you also add (1968) to your 2001 movie folder name for consistency

[theusedversion 36]

I'd say your assumption that the duplicate nfos are causing duplicate search results is correct.

 

As to why the duplicate nfos are being created I am not quite sure. Do you by any chance have your base folder g:\movies in your media library as well as g:\movies\movies?

 

Not that it will help this issue but I would recommend you also add (1968) to your 2001 movie folder name for consistency

No, I don't because I have a TV folder in there so that I would mess up my TV files.  That first Movies folder was supposed to say Videos but I never changed the error and just stuck with it. 

 

 

And the TV files

 

 

What would happen if I deleted all the file paths in Emby, did a system scan which would remove all the movies, delete all the rogue nfos, readd the file paths to Emby and then do another library scan again?  Would I lose anything by doing that?  Kind of scary to think about considering all the work I have put into it lately.

[ebr 16187]

None of those local drive paths actually overlap with the UNC ones (or other drives) also defined do they...?

[MrFlibbles 21]

It looks like Emby is "remembering" your movie files in g:\movies\movies which were their prior to you adding folders. Not sure if that is the case or if anyone else has seen that. You could try removing file path just to g:\movies\movies, clean up nfos and rescan then re-add. As you suggested but just try one path to see if it fixes what you are seeing.

 

Your downloaded metadata and images will remain in the folders and any added date etc will be stored in the nfo so that will also stay. Pretty sure watched status should stay as well as Emby remembers IDs rather than file paths for maintaining watch lists.

[theusedversion 36]

None of those local drive paths actually overlap with the UNC ones (or other drives) also defined do they...?

I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean.  I looked up UNC and it refers to server paths so I think you're refering to the Seagate paths up at the top of the pic?  It's just one of those Seagate Central cloud drives.

 

It looks like Emby is "remembering" your movie files in g:\movies\movies which were their prior to you adding folders. Not sure if that is the case or if anyone else has seen that. You could try removing file path just to g:\movies\movies, clean up nfos and rescan then re-add. As you suggested but just try one path to see if it fixes what you are seeing.

 

Your downloaded metadata and images will remain in the folders and any added date etc will be stored in the nfo so that will also stay. Pretty sure watched status should stay as well as Emby remembers IDs rather than file paths for maintaining watch lists.

I think I would have to remove all of G shouldn't I to test if it would work?  This also happens on all of my other hard drives and not just this G one.  I would like an additional confirmation from someone that if I remove the paths from Emby, scan, remove rogue nfos, readd file paths, scan again if I will lose anything by doing that?  Because I went through every title and changed all the genres, add actors to some of the titles, have a bunch of collections set up, watched/liked/favorited, etc.  Lots of work that I don't want to repeat if possible.

[theusedversion 36]

I also want to point out that it doesn't do it for every single movie in those drives.  It does it for most of them but there are several that it doesn't do it for.  I can't make any rhyme or reason out of it.

[ebr 16187]

I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean.  I looked up UNC and it refers to server paths so I think you're refering to the Seagate paths up at the top of the pic?  It's just one of those Seagate Central cloud drives.

 

What I meant was it would be possible for

 

\\Server\Movies

 

and 

 

D:\Movies

 

to actually point to the same location and, since you have both types of references I wanted to be sure that wasn't the case.

[theusedversion 36]

What I meant was it would be possible for

 

\\Server\Movies

 

and

 

D:\Movies

 

to actually point to the same location and, since you have both types of references I wanted to be sure that wasn't the case.

Oh no, not the same. I have no idea how to even do something like that. They are two different drives.