New rip for exisitng boxset folder, but on diff HDD

[rms8 14]

Hi All!

 

I rip all my BR's and DVDs to their native folder structure.  Up to this point I have been able to leave some room on the HDD which may have a Boxset  so that I can add a new sequel if one ever comes out.

 

I have a Die Hard Boxset Folder on HDD#2.  In that folder are each of the BR ripped folders for each movie.  I recently got the latest Die Hard movie, but no longer have enough room on HDD#2 for it so I ripped the new DH movie to HDD#7.

 

How do I make MBS not display the new DH movie as a separate movie (since it is a stand-alone folder on HDD#7) but instead have it show up in the DH Boxset on HDD#2?

 

Thanks all,

Rob

 

PS: Happy New Year to all

[Logos302 86]

Only way I know of is to use something like FlexRaid and join the hard drives.  

[gcw07 347]

To me what I would do is move my entire Die Hard collection to hard drive #7 and include the new one in that folder. It would then give you some room on the original drive #2 to put some individual movies and then start filling up #7 with other movies.

[rms8 14]

To me what I would do is move my entire Die Hard collection to hard drive #7 and include the new one in that folder. It would then give you some room on the original drive #2 to put some individual movies and then start filling up #7 with other movies.

 

This was what I was intending to do as a "last resort" but thought there was some way to do this with shortcuts, but wasn't sure how or even if that could be done....

[gcw07 347]

It might be able to be done with shortcuts, I've just never used them so not sure. Sorry.

[rms8 14]

Hopefully someone who uses shortcuts will chime in and if/how it can be done.......

[rms8 14]

ANYONE use shortcuts to place more movies into a box set which is on a different drive?

 

Or more to the point, ANYONE able to add movies to a box set which are not actually in the boxset folder due to that drive not having enough free space?

[Smaky 131]

My understanding is that shortcuts in a collection folder will work provided the folder they reside is part of the library.

 

Look at https://github.com/MediaBrowser/MediaBrowser/wiki/Library-Structure for further details.

[rms8 14]

My understanding is that shortcuts in a collection folder will work provided the folder they reside is part of the library.

 

Look at https://github.com/MediaBrowser/MediaBrowser/wiki/Library-Structure for further details.

 

 

In order to be detected as a boxset, the folder must have [boxset] within the name, or a collection.xml metadata file within it.

In addition to movies within the boxset folder, movies can also be added from elsewhere in the library using shortcut files (.lnk). Simply place a shortcut file that points to the movie folder within the boxset folder. The path being pointed to from the shortcut must also exist in the library, using exactly the same path. It is simply a link to a pre-existing library item.

Shortcut example:

/Movies   /Home Alone (1990)     /Home Alone (1990).mkv/Boxsets   /Home Alone Collection [boxset]     /homealone.lnk (points to /Home Alone (1990) folder)

If Home Alone was added to the library as \my-server\movies\Home Alone (1990), then the path contained in the shortcut must point to \my-server\movies\Home Alone (1990), and not D:\Movies\Home Alone (1990)

 

So, based on the above a short cut WILL do the trick....BUT....it says "The path being pointed to from the shortcut must also exist in the library".  This would mean that the movie would also show up as a seperate entry when browsing your collection, in addition to appearing in the Box Set.....I think.

 

I don't want the movie to show up as a separate entry in the collection, just show up in the box set.  I wonder if you could place this movie in a folder which is not part of the library so that it doesn't show up as a separate entry in the general movie collection?