How do I move videos wihtout loosing metadata?

[kbyrd]

I've searched the forum and the FAQ (which tells me how to do this for recordings), no luck. I feel like I have seen the answer to this, but I can't find it now.

Let's say I have a video in a video library folder: /tmp/videos/foo.m2ts. It gets picked up by the next rescan, I use the SageMC interface to download the video info and image from IMDB. A week or so later, I re-encode foo.m2ts and turn it into foo.mkv, which I want to put into /videos/foo.mkv. I was under the impression that as long as /tmp/videos and /videos are both library import folders AND that I only change the file extension of the video file that Sage will automatically match up /videos/foo.mkv with the metadata that used to be associated with /tmp/videos/foo.m2ts.

As it is now, every time I move anything (even if I don't re-encode and change the file extension) Sage considers it a new file, my "watched" bit it reset and the metadata is gone.

Help!

[kbyrd]

bump.

[Islander]

I cannot help you with the name file change because so far I have not gotten into transcoding because my media server has 20tb, but my experience with the manual move was like playing Russian Roulette.

I was recording to a local drive and then manually moving the recordings to the the media server. Both drives/subs were listed in Sage as recording directories. Sometimes it would work others I would end with orphaned files.

I have been using Sage SJQ 3 which has an internal move command that works like a charm. If you get it this is what I use to move the files around, a little rudimentary I know but it does the job and I have been busy at work lately:

# Move recordings from local drive to HPSERVER1
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && $.IsFileCurrentlyRecording{} == false && $.IsCompleteRecording{} == true && Filename =* "C:\\MyVideos"]
{
:PRIORITY 100
:MOVERECOPTS "\\\\HPSERVER1\\Recorded TV"
_MOVEREC
# :PRIORITY 80
# _UNARCHIVE
}


# Unarchive files
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && $.IsFileCurrentlyRecording{} == false && $.IsCompleteRecording{} == true && MediaAge < "3D" && Filename !* "C:\\MyVideos" && (TimeOfDay > "3:00" && TimeOfDay < "4:00")]
{
:PRIORITY 110
_UNARCHIVE
}