Collections Path Location

[Tolerant 74]

I just moved my server to a different system using The Backup / Restore, and I noticed the path for my "Collections" (as shown on my main Home page) still had my old path from the other system I was using. I have searched all over and could not find a way to change that location.

 

The only choice I could find, was to delete the "Collections" library item, and now it is of course gone from my "home page".  I was hoping it would be rebuilt with the proper path for that computer, but so far no luck yet (still re-scanning my database as I had to fix some of the library paths as well).

 

Is there a location in Setup that I should have been able to edit that path or something else I should have done to have it update to the proper location and not keep the old location?  Will it eventually rebuild itself?

 

Emby Server for Windows, v4.3.0.30

Win 10 x 64

 

Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Are referring to the paths in the collection.xml?

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Collections-%E2%80%93-Manual-Migration

[Tolerant 74]

Yes, I think so? It was in the %appdata% but my windows user names/path are not the same on each machine, so it was pointing to a location that didn't exist locally.  So I kinda zapped it out of my "library".

[Luke 42083]

I think he means the path for the library itself.

[Happy2Play 9783]

So you are referring to the Collections library path?  It should be a token (dependant on how old the installation is/was).  What appear in you backup folder in the library\collections\options.xml for the path.  Or look at your current restored path \Emby-Server\programdata\root\default\Collections\options.xml

 

snippet

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<LibraryOptions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <EnableArchiveMediaFiles>false</EnableArchiveMediaFiles>
  <EnablePhotos>true</EnablePhotos>
  <EnableRealtimeMonitor>false</EnableRealtimeMonitor>
  <EnableChapterImageExtraction>false</EnableChapterImageExtraction>
  <ExtractChapterImagesDuringLibraryScan>false</ExtractChapterImagesDuringLibraryScan>
  <DownloadImagesInAdvance>true</DownloadImagesInAdvance>
  <PathInfos>
    <MediaPathInfo>
      <Path>%AppDataPath%\collections</Path>
    </MediaPathInfo>
  </PathInfos>

Edited December 4, 2019 by Happy2Play

[Tolerant 74]

There is no collections folder in that location on the moved install.  I suppose I can try to copy/move from the "old" system and then maybe edit the .xml you mentioned? 

[Happy2Play 9783]

There is no collections folder in that location on the moved install.  I suppose I can try to copy/move from the "old" system and then maybe edit the .xml you mentioned? 

 

That should work if you did that.  Shutdown server move that root folder and edit the path, start Emby and do a library scan.  But the question still remains of whether all the paths in the collection.xml's are correct on your new server.

[Tolerant 74]

Well, there are no folders like showing in the page about moving collections. Just the 3 files. I did not have any manually created collections, only the ones from the addon. Atm people are watching stuff and i am still doing a scan after adjusting paths, so I can't really find out quite yet. But thanks, this gives me an idea of what should have been where, hopefully it will work after a restart.