Same folder... but on new hard drive

[vhds 1]

My hard drive was about to crash, so I made a backup of everything, including all the media content I watch trhough emby

It was in the C:\EmbyMedia folder

I bought new disk drives, a SDD for the operating system and a HDD for documents, etc. and reinstalled Windows (and the Emby server)

That means that now, my Emby content is in the D:\EmbyMedia folder

What should I do to restart Emby and find everything like it was before (I haven't done anything yet, I'll wait for your answers to do it correctly from scratch) ? In case of need (export some things, for example), I could reboot from my old hard drive, if it wants to (it's still alive...)

Thank you :)

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, the easiest method is probably to edit your libraries and point to the new location and do a full library rescan.

That will take a bit of time but will make sure all your content is found and reloaded properly. With only a single drive of content this shouldn't take to long to perform.

[vhds 1]

I forgot to add that I made a lot of customization, for example for titles not found properly by the auto-search, or some posters.

Isn't there a file / folder where everything is stored ?

[Ronstang 294]

1 hour ago, vhds said:

I forgot to add that I made a lot of customization, for example for titles not found properly by the auto-search, or some posters.

Isn't there a file / folder where everything is stored ?

That information should be in the NFO files that are stored in the same directory as your video files so as long as you have the box for NFO files checked in he library settings to save metadata.  If you do moving the files to a new drive moves the information with the videos so a simple library scan of the new location should find all your info as Cayars stated above.

[vhds 1]

Thank you for the answers !

 

Here's what I did, and it almost completely worked (way better than if I had not done anything).

- Add the .nfo option in all the libraries (on the old computer)

- Ask to update all the missing metadata (on the old computer), that allowed to create the .nfo files

- Copy all the directories on the new hard drive

- Proceed with the “backup” explained in the support section (https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159936-backup)

- Start the server

- Edit the libraries

- Do a full rescan

 

The small issues I faced :

- Some titles, metadata or images were changed ; yet, they were scarce. I remember all the edits I had to do on some movies, and almost everything was still there.

- On some directories I have on a remote server (that still is regarded as Z://, as on the previous one), all the titles were changed to their English version (I have my movies in French and the titles were in French, as are all the language options). 

 

Verifying and making the corrections took some time, but it was a way easier job thanks to your advice.

Thank you again !

I hope that the procedure above will help other people in the same case.

[Carlo 4561]

Great report with lots of good info.

Thanks