Moving media library library

[johnsonb 12]

Hi guys. I have to move my media library to a larger drive. Do I simply copy the current media folders to the new drive? I recently had a drive crash and I lost all my media and I had to start over. I'd rather not make a mess of this.

thanks, Bj

[gillmacca01 212]

Depending on your setup, you will probably need to point Emby to the new location for your library, and then wait for the library scan to re-import your media into Emby

[johnsonb 12]

That what all I hoped I would have to do. The drive letter will change so, I will have to point Emby to the new                                                                                                                                      library.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

thanks, Bj

[gillmacca01 212]

Unless you use Trakt, or want to save you playstates, you might (if not already doing so) want to run Emby backup, so that you can just restore the playstates after the scan

Edited April 27, 2021 by gillmacca01

[Carlo 4561]

How you do this I think depends on if you have the space to add the NEW drive without removing the old drive first.  In that case you can add the new drive letter and path to an Emby library and MOVE the data.  Emby will then remove the old link and create the new link as content is moved.

If you can't have both drives in the system but need to copy the data adhoc I would shut Emby down and copy all the data to the new drive, remove the old and configure it for the same drive letter.

Kind of depends how you need to replace the drive.