Whats in my Embyserver/metadata/library and why is it so big?

[gergtreble 0]

I believe I have Emby set up to write all metadata as sidecar files in the media's own folder. But I have a 32GB metadata/library folder!

 

 

Whats in there and can I remove it?

 

 

[Luke 42077]

Downloaded images, thumbnails if you enabled them, chapter images if you enabled them.

[gergtreble 0]

Thanks Luke.

 

None of my libraries are configured to store thumbs or chapter images. When you say downloaded images, what would that include? And why would they not be saved in the media folder as a sidecar file?

 

What would happen if I deleted this folder? Would it get recreated at the same size after a full library scan? 

[Luke 42077]

It won't get recreated. You may just find yourself missing a lot of images in the user interface. But you could try deleting it and then running a scan. 

[gergtreble 0]

Thanks, I'll back it up and see what happens if I rm -rf * it.

 

Cheers!

[Luke 42077]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Depending on how old your installation is you will loose all of your Cast and Crew/Artist images as they are now stored in metadata/library.