Hammerhead 4 Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 I'm not sure how this happened, but it seems that Emby has 'latched' onto a backup folder where I keep my FLAC files so when I recently added a new album to the backup folder, it also appears in Emby. Then, when I deleted the Emby (multimedia/music) folder, the backup directory also was deleted. I wanted to keep both folders separate. So I'm trying to figure out what went wrong. Thanks in advance!
Luke 42077 Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Hi, I would suggest checking your library setup. Let us know how you get on. Thanks !
Hammerhead 4 Posted December 8, 2016 Author Posted December 8, 2016 Luke, sorry for taking so long to reply. Not sure what you mean by 'check the library settings'. What should I be looking for? Is this a case where if I add a library to Emby that resides elsewhere on the drive, that actions performed within Emby will be imposed on that folder? IOW, is it a 'symlink' of some sort? I did remove the 'music' library from Emby, but I still have an entry in 'path substitution'. Thanks in advance.
Luke 42077 Posted December 8, 2016 Posted December 8, 2016 Hi, in other words, go through each library in library setup and review the paths and make sure this particular path does not appear anywhere. If it does, remove it. If the issue persists, then please provide more detail about where you are seeing it still in Emby. Thanks !
Hammerhead 4 Posted January 9, 2017 Author Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) Luke, I just double-checked, and I have only 3 libraries in Emby: Movies, TV Episodes, Videos. I did at one time have a Music library and linked that path to a shared folder on my NAS, but that has been removed in Emby so it no longer exists. On the NAS side of things, I see that the path for the 'Music' folder has a path that points to the Multimedia folder, and I'm not sure if I did that, or if it was done automatically when I set it up and just don't remember doing so. Would it make sense to delete the folder and recreate it? Or should I just change the path to leave it as its own 'parent' folder... IOW, instead of '/Multimedia/Music', I would change it to /Music? Edited January 10, 2017 by Hammerhead
Hammerhead 4 Posted January 9, 2017 Author Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) My NAS. In the back, you can see the file manager where the folder 'Music' appears both at the root of the system, but also as a subfolder in the /Multimedia folder. The properties dialog at the right is showing how the path points to /Multimedia/Music, but the folder is actually sits at the root of the volume. I'm not sure if this is some sort of setting that Emby applied, if the NAS did it on its own, or if I managed to somehow link the two together. Perhaps this is just a matter of my OCD, but what I'm after is to have my music folder as a standalone public share, instead of lumping it with my other entertainment to prevent changes to tags and art, and to make backups easier to Crashplan. Or, am I over-thinking this, and there's no real reason to have it separate? In either case, the dual folders is freaking me right the hell out. Edited January 9, 2017 by Hammerhead
Luke 42077 Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 @@Hammerhead what does your emby library setup look like? can you show us that? thanks !
Luke 42077 Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Yes. What is the full path that you used for each of the three libraries? And what is the exact problem you are seeing in Emby? I know you described it earlier but it's much easier if I can visualize it. Thanks !
Hammerhead 4 Posted January 11, 2017 Author Posted January 11, 2017 Luke, I decided to just back up my FLAC files, deleted the folders and re-created a new folder. Thanks!
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