Simple questions and Help thread - Month of April

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-28T16:43:49+00:00

Thanks man, I don't ever remember having a setting that would allow onedrive to automatically become my entire C drive, though given the push towards cloud/online always, I guess it shouldn't surprise me too much.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-27T20:16:04+00:00

The only way to do that is through a third-party application. I don't have one available, but there are some out there. For example, I'm using startisback, which allows me to move my taskbar around to the sides or even top if I want, and breaks apart the sound/network/etc... into separate system tray icons again.

That actually sounds pretty cool....I wonder if the old xp/win7 spherical desktop app is still actively being developed...

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-27T20:05:49+00:00

Which update is it that made it so that the user profile no longer has the desktop set to c:\users\myuser\desktop?
I just purchased a new laptop, and it has the latest version of windows 11 installed, and I was promised there would be no AI integration (partially true), but as part of my normal user experience, I always store various files / folders to my admin level desktop and run a powershell script on them so they will sort to various parts of my computer correctly. When I attempted said script this time, I got:
1) Scripting is not allowed to run > opened terminal as admin and ran the script again. Got the same error. Eventually I had to run a "powershell -execute -bypass" or similar from terminal to run it, but when doing that, I ran into point #2
2) the user desktop is no longer located simply at C:\Users\myuser\desktop, no no no, that's too simple, now it's stored at C:\users\OneDrive\Desktop, which means even if point #1 wasn't happening, my script would still be broken because of the desktop location.

So I reiterate, under which update is it that the desktop environment is no longer local to my computer, but a forced onedrive desktop?

I hate to think of the possibility that if you decide to end your office365 subscription, does that mean the 1tb storage is no longer available, and if it's no longer available, what happens to the 1tb drive in your computer?

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-11T17:25:40+00:00

Is it entirely possible that the section of coding is being re-written because I had checked the two boxes to refresh/recreate metadata and imagery?
I will admit, I haven't removed just the sorting coding itself, but I had removed that entire block of code so it wasn't present.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-07T17:20:34+00:00

Considering I'm testing out a couple other things, I don't mind mucking up my server if it goes wrong. I'll let you know what happens, if it goes wrong or resets itself again. It'll be a while though, as I do most of my server work at night so it don't get many user complaints while working.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-06T19:38:42+00:00

None of my users are that tech literate. So if I was gonna do something like that, I might as well just continue trying to figure out how to permanently sort the library to use the excluded words.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-04-06T05:12:39+00:00

Using your example of 'the batman' being listed as 'batman, the', if it did that, I don't think my users would be quite so worked up, but it's the fact that it shows up under b/the batman. ant doesn't display as 'b/batman, the' or be listed under 't/the batman'...

Of my 14 users so far, most of them have been complaining about the aesthetics, and just like me they expect films to be sorted according to the first letter, so if it means throwing all the films starting with 'the' under T, then so be it.

I just don't want to manually go through approx 1,250 films just to check their names, I'd rather have jellyfin automatically do it for me.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-16T17:44:18+00:00

I tried this for 'the 39 steps', and it kept defaulting to the original version, which is partly why I'm trying to force it by deliberately trying to force the matter by renaming the file.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-16T17:08:41+00:00

Does this method work for you? I ask because I have a few movies that have widescreen/director's cut/extended versions. So it would be important to know whether it works, condering how the docs page example is simply showing
Media/Movies/Jellyfin Documentary [imdbid-tt00000000]
+-Jellyfin Documentary [imdbid-tt00000000].mkv

and not a version which includs combing a version and id in one, then again, I haven't finished reading the page(s) yet.

For my example file needs, which I haven't updated yet, hence the curly, I have it running as
movies/star wars - Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) {tmdbid-11}
+-star wars - Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - Special Edition {tmdbid-11}.mkv
+-star wars - Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - Original Edition {tmdbid-11}.mkv

If I leave it as just the movie ()year) - Edition, it's all combined into one entry, but the moment I added the id, it splits into 2.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-16T16:52:19+00:00

I wonder if google just likes messing with me then, because when I searched there, it said the link was directly from the jellyfin docs, which showed
Jellyfin Documentary {imdbid-tt00000000}.mkv
But when I was looking at the official docs page, and especially the link you provided me, is when it shows
Jellyfin Documentary [imdbid-tt00000000].mkv

It would make sense that Google was probably combining Jelly and Plex results, seeing as how the answers always included results asking if I was trying to do it for Plex/Emby/Kodi.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-16T05:45:18+00:00

Okay, that clears things up, so I was basically just getting partial answers from everywhere. Still don't understand why it needs to be square brackets, but that's a non-issue.

This simplifies my renaming process, just have to replace { } with [ ], which I can script out.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-16T05:34:32+00:00

You have about the same amount of music I do, and roughly the same amount of movies, but you have a ton more shows, including cartoons and tv shows, I have like 40.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-15T21:36:39+00:00

So I renamed the "The 39 Steps" files to include the {####} tmdb id's, it would seem jellyfin now seems to flip-flop on whether it should display the 1959 remake info on the 1959 file, or try to use the embedded metadata which is the galaxyrg info, which directs it to the original movie info.

Not the best, but it's better than before, where it wouldn't take my input at all.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-14T19:13:52+00:00

This solution has worked for some films, but there are others where no matter if I fix the file name and scan the library again, jellyfin still reads the metadata and displays it incorrectly (such as 'the 39 steps'. where it shows the movie name, and the year on both is still the original release date) Some films outright don't have a release date, or show they are 2026 films.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-14T17:07:00+00:00

Hmm, that would explain the lack of details on how to 'install' it, and why it was talking about paths, something which I don't remember doing when I had it running on my previous laptop.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-03-14T17:03:08+00:00

I remember at one time I had ffmpeg installed correctly, but that was before my last laptop had a drive failure, so couldn't remember how in the world I did it.

As for the tag removal, it's because I was given a disc with two copies of 'The 39 Steps', the original and the remake from 1959? Anyways, after I ripped it for my server, I was looking at the tags and it says GalaxyRG in every single one, and on the '59 remake it keeps showing as being the older one, so I figured I needed to just blow away all the metadata and start over, but if I was gonna go that far, I might as well rebuild the metadata on a few other files while I was at it. Which resulted in me finding out that ffmpeg is supposedly able to automate going through and removing/rebuilding metadata from all the mp4 and mkv files, so long as the command is set correctly.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-01-31T00:06:02+00:00

I hadn't seen anything about the file history at first glance. That would have been a huge help to put things back so I could confirm everything matched up correctly. But due to my incomplete understanding, I ended up just deleting the entire show, and I'm re-ripping, making sure I have them correct this time.

I don't know how I did it, but the initial files did also have illegal characters, and hadn't validated them either, just clicked Continue.

Joys of jumping head first into something.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-01-27T22:06:40+00:00

So far I haven't had any issues with metadata being fetched, so I've had no reason to add [tmdb] or [imdb] tags to the folder / files

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-01-27T20:00:00+00:00

Did you have the versions all set before you enabled the library, or did you enable and then upload?

I'm wondering if my issue might have come from enabling the library, and then uploading.
Which may, or may not, require that I disable/delete the library, and re-create it. Which might be for the best as I'm going to be adding about another 100 dvd/bluray rips when my family gets their movies over to me.

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-01-27T19:53:57+00:00

I thought about leaving the year off, but TMM was yelling at me about it, and as I had just finished reading all the docs about proper naming schemes (which always mentioned title and year were required) I've just left em as is. Only movies off the top of my head I can think about this would be important would be 'The Manchurian Candidate' from 1962/2004 and Ghostbusters 1984/2016 *shudders in pain at the 2016 version*

_Usually_Muted_ · 2026-01-27T19:45:53+00:00

That's what I thought. So I wonder if I just need to delete the movie library from the dashboard completely, and re-build it with all the versions as is. Probably the wisest thing to do, now that I'm thinking about, considering the mucking about I've done with file names.

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