Path Substitution, .nfo and actor info

[Tech127 20]

So as I am rebuilding my library, I noticed in one of my movie .nfo files, that there was an entry for actor thumb:

  <actor>

    <name>Sigourney Weaver</name>

    <role>Ripley</role>

    <thumb>C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\ImagesByName\People\S\Sigourney Weaver\poster.jpg</thumb>

  </actor>

 

Noticing this pointed to a local path and given that all of the movie artwork is stored on the server, I under /advanced/path/images I pointed to a folder on the server.  Also to make things faster, I copied everything from C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\ImagesByName to \\HDA\MediaBrowser\Images.  When I rescan the movie, there is no entry in the .nfo for thumb anymore.

  <actor>

    <name>Sigourney Weaver</name>

    <role>Ripley</role>

  </actor>

 

Is this expected behavior or did I do something wrong?  I can easily change it back, it just seems like keeping everything in the same place makes more sense...

 

[Luke 42078]

after copying you should run the refresh people scheduled task so that those copied images can be rediscovered. of course this will happen on a schedule automatically anyway, but it sounds like you need it quicker than that

[Tech127 20]

Thanks Luke.

[Tech127 20]

So just an update on this for anyone else with the same question:

 

After rescanning the people, the links were added back into the .nfo files BUT they were not pointing to the new address.  It was still the local C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\ImagesByName\ folder.  I tried a Scheduled Task/Scan media library which did not fix the links.  Manually updating the library from Metadata manager corrected the issue and the .nfo's now point to the new location at smb://hda/MediaBrowser/Images/

 

For anyone using XBMC, that info also shows up there now too.