Re-organizing my BIG home NAS, question regarding local NFO

[djhifi 56]

EDIT: I made a typo in the thread title, it's not "local NFO" but "centralized NFO".

 

So this is actually a quick question altough I'm really unsure of the outcomes:

 

I am reorganizing my home NAS, and re-sorting all the volumes in order to accomodate more data per raid.

 

I have EMBY server scraping nfo's to a centralized destination (let's name it HDD-B )

 

If I realocate the said "Emby" folder that the server created there (on HDD-B ) to HDD-A and change the corresponding path from within EMBY server definitions, will it actually break anything on my collection or leave everything as it currently is?

 

I'm only asking this as my collection has over 5k movies and 500 tv shows and I really don't want to spend 2 days sorting first scan scraping problems all over again. Much time will I need to dedicate to all the NAS reorgnization that will take place

 

 

Thanks and sorry if this was already asked, I searched for it.

Edited March 7, 2017 by djhifi

[Luke 42086]

What do you mean centralized location? You mean the custom metadata path in the server dashboard?

[Happy2Play 9785]

Centralized (don't save with media) metadata only applies to images.  All media (at least Movies and TV) metadata is written directly to the database, so there are no nfo files ever written.

 

So technically there is no centralized metadata.  Images go to a /metadata sub-folders and data goes into database.

Edited March 7, 2017 by Happy2Play

[djhifi 56]

What do you mean centralized location? You mean the custom metadata path in the server dashboard?

 

This, yes.

 

Can I move that folder which Emby server created, onto a different HDD and change the path in the dashboard that I won't lose anything?

[djhifi 56]

Centralized (don't save with media) metadata only applies to images.  All media (at least Movies and TV) metadata is written directly to the database, so there are no nfo files ever written.

 

So technically there is no centralized metadata.  Images go to a /metadata sub-folders and data goes into database.

 

I made a confusion with that but basically you got the whole point. Well you and @@Luke separately.

 

Question remains, can I change that folder to another HDD and afterwards change its path location that all will remain the same in my collection?

[Happy2Play 9785]

I don't believe there will be any affect on your library do to the fact that your actual media locations are not changing.  But I would let @@Luke confirm.

[Luke 42086]

Should be OK. just run a library scan afterwards.

[djhifi 56]

Should be OK. just run a library scan afterwards.

 

Thanks will do.