chowbok 132 Posted November 15, 2018 Posted November 15, 2018 Okay, I guess I'm confused. When I add a "Primary" image to a TV episode, it saves it in the library as episodefilename-thumb.png. Great, that's what I want. But when I add a "Background" image, it saves it to /var/lib/emby/metadata/library/[something]/[something]/backdrop.png. Is this intentional? Seems strange that the behavior would be so different depending on the image type.If that is intentional, you might want to delete the line in the "Backup" wiki page that says "The only two folder [sic] in metadata you don't need are library and views." I've been spending a lot of time adding backdrops and I would have been upset if I hadn't been backing them up based on that advice.
ebr 16185 Posted November 15, 2018 Posted November 15, 2018 Hi. Do you have the option to save metadata and images with your media files enabled?
chowbok 132 Posted November 15, 2018 Author Posted November 15, 2018 Yep. And it's saving the .nfo files as well as the thumbs into the season folders. Just not the backdrops.
Solution Luke 42080 Posted November 15, 2018 Solution Posted November 15, 2018 At this time TV episodes do not have a local file name for backdrops. We've only ever had single primary images for episodes, so that's why this is happening. Typically you would set the backdrop at season or series level. 1
chowbok 132 Posted November 15, 2018 Author Posted November 15, 2018 Okay, thanks. I guess it's not a big deal, as long as I remember to backup the metadata/library folder.
ebr 16185 Posted November 15, 2018 Posted November 15, 2018 Ahhh.... I guess I missed the fact that you were trying to specify a backdrop for a single episode. Yeah, I never even thought of that..
chowbok 132 Posted December 29, 2018 Author Posted December 29, 2018 Hmm. Well, I lost my backdrop images anyway, even though they're still in the filesystem. Looks like they got dropped from the database at some point. This is frustrating, as I spent quite a bit of time adding those. Luke, any way the backdrop image locations could be written to the .nfo files, at least, even if the images themselves aren't saved to the season directories? I assume that would have prevented this from happening.
Luke 42080 Posted December 29, 2018 Posted December 29, 2018 Sorry, that was due to a change in the beta channel. It's something that stable users will never run into.
chowbok 132 Posted December 29, 2018 Author Posted December 29, 2018 Ah, okay. That's reasonable, I forget I'm running beta sometimes. Do you think it's safe to readd them now?
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