Is there a way to simply change the media location/folder without adding a new one and having to wait for everything to be rescanned and processed again? I had to change the mount for an NFS share-- nothing else changed at the NAS.
I figured that I'd be able to navigate to Setting -> Sources -> Personal Media -> Movies and simply change the existing folder path.
No, not if the paths change. One advantage of hosting in docker, is that you can control the mounted paths to avoid this.
Rather than doing links, use an SMB share. This way Channels DVR is unaware of the location your files are on disk. Once you do this if you want to move your files, you shut down Channels DVR, move the files to the new share and define the share with rights and then start Channels DVR.
yeah... it is containerized. the mount on the host had to change. thank you for the quick answer though. this is certainly not a normal use case, so I get it.
The mount on the host has no implication to the path it shows up in your container. That's the beauty of using containers.
As long as you mount it to the same path as you did before, Channels DVR Server won't know the difference when running inside the container.
you’re right. i recently moved to native install. i’m in the middle of a rework of my setup and i forgot channels is not containerized anymore. sounds silly, but lots going on. totally my fault there.
so in summary, running channels server in docker, this isn’t an issue. if you run it native, changing the location where the media is stored will require a rescan.
thanks again for the answers.
To be clear, changing the path of imports will always require them to be scanned in again, as their path is what identifies them in the library. It's just that with Docker, you can fake any path, so its easier.