How to Move Your Library to Another Location

[remid12 5]

On 12/13/2023 at 8:20 AM, DaveM77 said:

For anyone who stumbles across it wondering if it still works - I followed this today for doing the same (I had to update a path for a NAS as the share name changed) and it worked great.

Hi everybody,

I must do the change in the next week. I hope this will work at 4.8.10.0

I have one question if this succeed correctly, we will agree that emby server will keep all viewed movie by user ? Or we will lost this information ?
It coud have an issue on statistic extension ?

As my emby server is virtualized, I think I will copy the entire virtual machine in case of ^^
I will come back to you to say what is it

Thanks a lot,

[Luke 42077]

59 minutes ago, remid12 said:

Hi everybody,

I must do the change in the next week. I hope this will work at 4.8.10.0

I have one question if this succeed correctly, we will agree that emby server will keep all viewed movie by user ? Or we will lost this information ?
It coud have an issue on statistic extension ?

As my emby server is virtualized, I think I will copy the entire virtual machine in case of ^^
I will come back to you to say what is it

Thanks a lot,

Hi I would think user data should mostly be preserved using this method.

[DonMacaroni 54]

On 12/13/2023 at 9:20 AM, DaveM77 said:

For anyone who stumbles across it wondering if it still works - I followed this today for doing the same (I had to update a path for a NAS as the share name changed) and it worked great.

Tried this and all metadata got still nuked
Looks like editing XML's is not enough.

[remid12 5]

Thanks @Lukefor your answer.

As my goal is to change the name of library which are on network from IP to hostname ( for example instead have \\192.168.1.1\FIlms modify by \\EmbyServer\Films ) I will make a copy on my complete virtual computer.

In this way when I restart if it's not good, I will be able to come back to originial situation.

I will try the procedure, and I will come back to you to say want I do, or must do to complete succefuly the operation.