Can't get Emby to stop writing posters to Media folders

[Edrock200 53]

Hello all

At some point a while back I had enabled emby to sideload artwork next to the media. Recently I decided I didn't want this, and disabled this feature as well as deleted all the poster.jpg's from the folders. Despite doing this, emby still sideloaded the artwork, and I can't figure out why. Is there some other step I'm missing?

If I make the media mount "read only" will this force emby to write to it's local metadata instead or will it break something? Thanks in advance.

Ed

[Luke 42080]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? Where exactly did you disable it?

[Edrock200 53]

Sure, if I go to settings/library, click the 3 dots on each library then edit, then untick "save artwork into media folders."

[Guest]

It is probably saving this to the metadata folder... You should have turned off the metadata settings for the Library as well.. These items can also be in the cache. 

[Luke 42080]

9 minutes ago, Edrock200 said:

Sure, if I go to settings/library, click the 3 dots on each library then edit, then untick "save artwork into media folders."

But what is an example of a movie getting a poster in the media folder?

[Edrock200 53]

Oh, today "The Power (2021)" added poster and background jpgs. Seems to be for newly added content.

[Luke 42080]

Where did it add those files?

[Edrock200 53]

Sideloaded next to the media mkv file.

Edited April 25, 2021 by Edrock200

[Luke 42080]

Can you show a screenshot of the settings for the library in emby library setup?

[Edrock200 53]

[Edrock200 53]

[Luke 42080]

How many emby libraries have you created? did you check the settings for each library?

[Edrock200 53]

Yes I checked setting in each library, but that poster generated above was from library setting screen shot I sent you

 

 

[Edrock200 53]

Also fwiw I tried testing making the media mount RO. Normal full scan is ~15m or less. After an ~2 hours, at 14%

[Luke 42080]

3 minutes ago, Edrock200 said:

Yes I checked setting in each library, but that poster generated above was from library setting screen shot I sent you

 

 

Perhaps something else put the image there and not Emby? Please attach the emby server log from when it was imported. Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9782]

22 minutes ago, Edrock200 said:

Also fwiw I tried testing making the media mount RO. Normal full scan is ~15m or less. After an ~2 hours, at 14%

Emby would see the RO and throw an error and write to local metadata/library folder, the log would reflect this.  Now if image already exist with media this this is irrelevant as Emby will continue to read them.

[Edrock200 53]

It's def emby. Nothing else running on this box.

[Luke 42080]

Please attach the emby server log from when it was imported. Thanks.

[Luke 42080]

@Edrock200 ?

[Edrock200 53]

Sorry for busy with other projects. Ended.up.just making the docker mapping read only so emby couldn't write there. There's no other media apps on this server so I know it was emby writing it, but I couldn't find any combination of settings to get it to stop other than to make the share read only.

[Luke 42080]

Thanks for the update.