Emby reset to default settings after changing metadata directory path

[bepcyc 0]

Hi everybody. Here is my little sad story, hope somebody can help me here.

 

I ran out of space today and made a bad decision to point metadata directory to a directory on an external drive.

Now I see Initial Setup Wizard when I try to access my Emby Web UI.

 

Fortunately, all of the data is still there in /var/lib/emby-server/metadata, but now I don't know how to tell Emby to look at that directory. It is configured to use /mnt/hdd/storage/emby-metadata which is empty now.

 

I tried to make a link like this /mnt/hdd/storage/emby-metadata -> /var/lib/emby-server/metadata, but it didn't help.

 

So I'm asking the community for a help as my library has some manually downloaded content which I don't want to lose.

 

Some technical info:

 

emby-server version: 3.0.5768.7

hardware: ODROID-U3

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

 

I Attached a log file just in case (no errors there though).

 

 

server-63581746878.txt

Edited October 29, 2015 by bepcyc

[Luke 42077]

can you try putting the data back where it was? then use the functions in the UI to change paths accordingly, for example, under server -> settings, you can change the server cache path.

[bepcyc 0]

Thanks, it worked. Wizard found out all the data.

Great! Big thanks.