Simple change of media location without move of database location not possible

[rohrbrecher]

So I've tried several things but either my config is wrong or my use case is not fully supported by the script at the moment.

I want to move my media from its current location (E:/Filme) to its new location on a NAS (\NAS/Filme or, if this doesn't work I will mount the folder to M:/Filme). The Jellyfin server is supposed to stay on the same machine, same location, no changes.

I created a copy of my database to C:/temp so that my main database (located in ...\AppData\Local\jellyfin) is not affected, but this is where my problem is. No matter how I configure the script, the changes are always done on the main jellyfin db and the defined output folder is empty.

My config currently looks like this:

log_file = "C:/temp/jf-migrator.log"

path_replacements = {
    "target_path_slash": "/",
    "E:/Filme": "M:/Filme",
    "E:/Serien": "M:/Serien",
    "%MetadataPath%": "%MetadataPath%",
    "%AppDataPath%": "%AppDataPath%",
}

fs_path_replacements = {
    "log_no_warnings": False,
    "target_path_slash": "/",
    "%AppDataPath%": "C:/temp/jellyfin_post/data",
    "%MetadataPath%": "C:/temp/jellyfin_post/metadata",
}

original_root = Path("C:/Users/Thomas/AppData/Local/jellyfin")
source_root = Path("C:/temp/jellyfin")
target_root = Path("C:/temp/jellyfin_post")

Since I don't want to move or copy my DB to another location I intentionally removed all the other parts of your example config. Maybe I made a mistake there.

My expectation was, that the script takes the info from C:/temp/jellyfin, performs all the replacements and then gives me the new database in C:/temp/jellyfin_post so that I can manually copy it to its destination (which is .../AppData/Local/jellyfin). But as I said before, the current behavior is, that the tool instead patches my main DB.

[damonlynch]

My experience is also that it simply overwrites the contents of C:/ProgramData/Jellyfin/Server, failing to copy anything to the target directory. Consequently, the jellyfin libraries are empty.

It makes no difference if source_root differs from original_root.

This is on Python 3.12 on Windows.

[TheChilliPL]

Windows 11, Python 3.9. The issue is present, although I don't think the changes are saved anywhere. The database file seems to not be modified at all, and the target_root doesn't even get created