I duplicated a drive and now I have two of everything

[crusher11 1101]

I've had my media spread over a couple of internal drives and a couple of external drives. Finally invested in a NAS. Started moving things over.

 

Created all the folders I needed, empty, and added them to each library.

Turned off real time monitoring.

Disabled scheduled scanning.

Copied across the contents of one of the internal drives onto the NAS.

Ran a scan manually.

 

Now I have two of every movie and every TV show that was stored on the NAS, instead of it multi-versioning them together. It's carried across watched/unwatched/half-watched etc to both version, but why is it doing this? I expected it to multi-version it so I could slowly copy things over to the NAS, then update my collections and playlists all at once with a simple find-and-replace, and then remove the old folders. Externally, it wouldn't look like anything had changed except for the multi-versioning.

[pwhodges 2012]

For multiversioning the files need to be in the same directory with names that enable them to be linked but also distinguished, and which follow stricter rules than usual (e.g. for movies the common parts of the name must be identical to the name of the folder they are in; series are less picky over that).

 

Paul

[crusher11 1101]

Actually it seems the TV shows have merged and multi-versioned, it's just the movies that aren't behaving as expected.

[Spaceboy 2573]

The previous answer you were given is correct