What Happens If Drives Are Offline?

[SpiderValley 8]

I'm traveling and I only half a couple of the hard drives which contain my collection of TV Shows & Movies. The drives are all mapped by their letter in the library section i.e. under movies I have B:/Movies, D:/Movies, etc, under tv T:/TV Shows).

If I open Emby with only some of the drives dconnected, will it assume the files on the offline drives have been removed? Or will it have placeholders showing that they're part of the library that are currently offline?
 

Basically lets say I have 600 movies, but only 300 of them are online. Emby will still show all 600 as items to scroll through (though perhaps missing posters and metadata because that's saved in the folder) correct? I just obviously won't be able to access the online files.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Your stuff is marked as offline. Some clients may prompt the items to be removed from the library. Bringing the drives online and running a library scan will bring them back.

[SpiderValley 8]

Thanks

[CFC 25]

I can confirm that this is in fact the behavior as I discovered last night.

I migrated one of my WHS shares to a new drive - and sure enough the items from that share were all listed as offline.

It wasn't immediately obvious that I needed to explicitly rescan to get them back. I figured since it automatically showed "offline", it would likewise pick it back up when the share came back online.

Nevertheless, a quick rescan brought everything back to normal.

 

CFC

[HaraldBluetooth 21]

I would also prefer, that items are listed as offline and never removed from library. But lately movies from offline disks have been removed automatically. Next time these disks are online again, the movies are imported again. It is a little pain, when I try to sort the movies in "Date Added" order, when I manage (real) new movies. Is there a setting to avoid, that items are removed? (Emby server version 3.0.5871.0).