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My server was hit by a ransomware. And the drives were disconnected because the hacker put them in bitlocker-ed state, i managed to recover them eventually. But emby apparently decides to refetch all metadata again. Even though the path doesnt change at all.

 

And im pretty sure i put the metadata with the media,

Is there anyway to prevent this behavior? Or maybe im not setting it up correctly?

Happy2Play
Posted

A dev will probably provide a better answer, but I would assume all items were removed from Emby when the data got encrypted.  Now Emby is re-adding your media and if the existing metadata/images are not readable (maybe permisiions) Emby falls back to default storing metadata to database and images to /library.

 

A server log may explain more though.

Posted

Hi, yes we'd have to look at the server log, thanks.

Posted

Hi there, are you still running into this?

denywinarto
Posted (edited)

Hi there, are you still running into this?

 

Well if emby still force user to update whole library if the media changes path / disconnected,

and there's no way to change this behavior

then it's still gonna be an issue for me.

It took 4 days for emby to refetch the metadata

Edited by denywinarto
Posted

Well if emby still force user to update whole library if the media changes path / disconnected,

and there's no way to change this behavior

then it's still gonna be an issue for me.

It took 4 days for emby to refetch the metadata

 

Hi.  Why don't you save the metadata with the files? 

denywinarto
Posted

Hi.  Why don't you save the metadata with the files? 

 

It is with the media files already,

unless there's another option that i missed

 

 

 

5d96770937e5e_metadata.jpg

 

The only related option that still unchecked is save metadata and image in hidden files.

Happy2Play
Posted

It is with the media files already,

unless there's another option that i missed

 

 

 

5d96770937e5e_metadata.jpg

 

The only related option that still unchecked is save metadata and image in hidden files.

What are in those 1KB nfo/xml files?  To me those would appear to be missing a lot of metadata.  But the moviename.nfo would appear to the new one that was generated.

 

The xmls are not used at all unless you have installed the xml metadata plugin and adjusted priority.

 

@@Luke which one will have priority the moviename.nfo or the movie.nfo?

denywinarto
Posted (edited)

What are in those 1KB nfo/xml files?  To me those would appear to be missing a lot of metadata.  But the moviename.nfo would appear to the new one that was generated.

 

The xmls are not used at all unless you have installed the xml metadata plugin and adjusted priority.

 

@@Luke which one will have priority the moviename.nfo or the movie.nfo?

 

I just realized i had this option unchecked, could this be the cause?

 

5d9689f802d03_artwork.jpg

 

 the NFO and xml are generated by radarr, i have all metadata option enabled on radarr, strange, cant seem to upload them here.

Here's the nfo and xml :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/184m4jBR2pD0ioa6nIBBgYeY_31YF2CEy/view?usp=sharing

Edited by denywinarto
Posted

Okay, so stop Radarr from  creating those NFO files and check that option for Emby to store metadata with the media, then do a complete and full refresh (replacing all metadata) of everything and you should no longer have the issue of it taking a long time to re-fetch (after this time).

denywinarto
Posted

Okay, so stop Radarr from  creating those NFO files and check that option for Emby to store metadata with the media, then do a complete and full refresh (replacing all metadata) of everything and you should no longer have the issue of it taking a long time to re-fetch (after this time).

Not even the Emby metadata option?

Both radarr and sonarr have it.

Hmm , are you suggesting to delete all metadata files on my library? that might take awhile cause i have almost 200 tb 

Posted

No, you shouldn't have to delete them.

denywinarto
Posted

5d97e95453905_newmetaadata.jpg

 

Hmm i've tested with just emby metadata enabled on radarr, and this is what i got.

Is it supposed to be like this? No poster.jpg?

 

If it is, then it's conflicting with my other custom app that requires poster.jpg on each media.

Just wondering, would it be ok if i let radarr fetch poster.jpg through kodi metadata option?

So it would be like this, the kodi metadata option is disabled (previously it was enabled)

 

5d97ea094fef4_radarrmetadata.jpg

 

If its okay then probably this is the ideal setting for my library, i need at least poster.jpg

Posted

Notice the "legacy" indication on the Emby option?  I wouldn't use that.

Posted

I would use the kodi/xbmc option because Emby supports that metadata out of the box.

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