Rename Files & Folders breaks Collection Assignment

[vmcosco 24]

I am in the process of renaming my movie folders and files.  I have to say, Emby does a great job handling the renaming and not thinking the movie is a new addition.  One issue I found though is that when i rename either a movie folder or a move file, the association with any collections is broken.  For example, if I rename Back to the Future to Back to the Future (1985), it no longer shows up in my "Back to the Future Collection".  The same happens if I rename the just the folder but maintain the file name.

 

Is there a way to preserve the collection assignments for renamed files and/or folders?

[Luke 42086]

Collections are done based on file paths, so that's normal.  You'll have to just redo the collections or edit their collection xml file.

[vmcosco 24]

Collections are done based on file paths, so that's normal.  You'll have to just redo the collections or edit their collection xml file.

 

Thanks.  So the Collections themselves with their artwork, etc will stay intact.  That is not too bad then.  I was hoping to avoid having to redo all of the artwork.

[dance4ever 11]

aha - I was wondering what happened when a bunch of Collections disappeared (I had reorganized at the directory level)

Kind nudge for an enhancement request Collections be based on movie IDs

I find myself having to refactor directories quite often to keep my library semi-navigatible at the directory level as it grows (esp if I run into a need to mount sub-directories onto different drives!)

I’ve very appreciative moving files around doesn’t break my library in general

Edited May 3, 2021 by dance4ever

[Happy2Play 9785]

10 minutes ago, dance4ever said:

aha - I was wondering what happened when a bunch of Collections disappeared (I had reorganized at the directory level)

Kind nudge for an enhancement request Collections be based on movie IDs

I find myself having to refactor directories quite often to keep my library semi-navigatible as it grows.

I’ve very appreciative moving files around doesn’t break my library in general

This changes in 4.6 as Auto Boxset plugin is depreciated and server performs this task via library setting.  There are topics all over about the recent corrected issue of single item collection being created.

[dance4ever 11]

On 5/2/2021 at 6:03 PM, Happy2Play said:

This changes in 4.6 as Auto Boxset plugin is depreciated and server performs this task via library setting.  There are topics all over about the recent corrected issue of single item collection being created.

I’m not clear if we are talking about the same thing here.  I am not pointing to the Auto Boxset plugin.

I am referring to Luke’s comment:

On 8/2/2018 at 2:26 PM, Luke said:

Collections are done based on file paths, so that's normal.  You'll have to just redo the collections or edit their collection xml file.

and requesting an enhancement request to base Collections on object IDs rather than file paths.

[crusher11 1102]

Yes, the new beta stores the collection name/ID in the NFO for the movie.