Post #4045921

Another run in with cruft in #jellyfin and a strong recommendation to others to read their manual page on filenames very carefully, at least until this notion of uncaught exceptions on missing files is updated to be a mere shrug and flush of associated metadata,and a priority to fix. What happened was really stupid on my part: I noticed file shares often include an IMDB tag in the filename. I had THOUGHT I had seen {imdb-tt…} in the wild, but it had no effect (so I thought) so I hunted up the guide, and so I corrected them to be [imdbid-tt…] I can no longer watch those shows: Jellyfin offers the old {imdb-*} and will not register the 'new' [imdbid-*] files, even in the Folders view. For a wishlist, I'd hope some enterprising coder can roll a dcleanup script that recognizes a missing file and purges all references. Would be nice if it recognized a name-change-only case and ported the old metadata, but hey, as it is, the only method left is wipe clean rebuild from scratch, so anything at all is welcome.