February 27, 201214 yr have two main user level shares Movies TV Shows (there are three others, but they are small, confined to 1 drive) Movies are Movies ... Title Folder ..... Mkv ..... poster ..... info ... Title Folder ... Title Folder TV is... TV Shows ... Series ..... Season x ..... Season y .... Season z I would like to keep everything in the Movies-Title folder together and from TV-Series down together... SO, Movies Split Level 2 and TV Split Level 3? (before I start moving 18tb over, would like to get it right 'the first time' (yeah, I'm foolish.. )
February 27, 201214 yr If you want to keep everything in the same Movie Title folder(like Movie.avi, metadata.xml, cover.jpg), split level 2. If you want to keep all seasons of a particular series together, split level 2. The wiki explains how this can be bad for tv shows. If you have a long running show on a particular harddrive and have split level set at 2, unraid cannot put a new season on another drive if that one becomes full, and will subsequently fail to move/add the new season/episodes. If you set split level 3 for TV shows, All shows of a particular season will stay together, but new seasons can be put on a different drive in the event the current drive is full. Otherwise, you'd have to move shows around to free up room for shows that are still being filmed vs shows that are ended.
February 27, 201214 yr Author If you want to keep everything in the same Movie Title folder(like Movie.avi, metadata.xml, cover.jpg), split level 2. yup, that's the plan.. I had a few on the three drive setup (no split level set, and was set for 'high water') and was losing my mind (again) when suddenly this morning I found the movie folders were duplicated on another drive, but only the .tbn, .jpp and .nfo's there. I had done an export library from the XBMC and then remembered the split levels. If you want to keep all seasons of a particular series together, split level 2. The wiki explains how this can be bad for tv shows. If you have a long running show on a particular harddrive and have split level set at 2, unraid cannot put a new season on another drive if that one becomes full, and will subsequently fail to move/add the new season/episodes. If you set split level 3 for TV shows, All shows of a particular season will stay together, but new seasons can be put on a different drive in the event the current drive is full. Otherwise, you'd have to move shows around to free up room for shows that are still being filmed vs shows that are ended. That sounds about right, I'm manually moving the 'completed' series to the drives where I want.. then open season for the others.. I figure once every few months I'll check things out and move as necessary... thx... OH, secondary question... I'm using Teracopy to combine those movie folders (see above) with a move/verify and it won't delete the old folder after the copy/verify (gives an error 'unable to delete folder). Huh?
February 27, 201214 yr Are you able to manually delete the folders after a move? If not check your permissions. Otherwise the only other thing I can think of is something is still accessing it. I just started using Teracopy myself and had that problem when permissions weren't right. Maybe a unRAID guru will see this thread and chime in on any other ideas.
February 28, 201214 yr Author Are you able to manually delete the folders after a move? If not check your permissions. Otherwise the only other thing I can think of is something is still accessing it. I just started using Teracopy myself and had that problem when permissions weren't right. Maybe a unRAID guru will see this thread and chime in on any other ideas. Yah, could delete them by hand with no issue..
February 28, 201214 yr Both split levels should be 1. Did you read the user share section in the unofficial manual in the unRAID Wiki? http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Split_level If you did, look again because I had a mistake in the one description for the TV share. If you didn't yet, then take a look and it should help. Basically, you number each level and then use the number for the last directory you want to split up to multiple drives. As an example; 1 - Movies (share directory) 2 - Movie1 (movie directory) 2 - Movie2 (movie directory) 2 - etc You want Movies to split but Movie1 to not split so use level 1.
February 28, 201214 yr Thanks for that correction, I was thinking season instead of series, went back and re-read and saw my error.
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