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Can't delete filebot.metadata files
Posted: 07 Sep 2022, 11:13
by EvilWayz
Linux insists there is no such file or directory so my hard drive is littered with these files.
for example:
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Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil - 1x01 - He's Not the Messiah, He's a DJ.avi:net.filebot.metadata
Re: Can't delete filebot.metadata files
Posted: 07 Sep 2022, 15:07
by rednoah
Screenshots? At first glance, it looks like you're somehow seeing the
xattr metadata that is attached to each media file.
What File Manager are you using to view file listings on the client-side?
What SMB configuration are you using on the server-side?
xattr metadata can technically be seen as "file"
(i.e. arbitrary data) internally on the file system level, but it's not typically displayed as such by file managers because it's not a "file" as end-users would typically understand the concept.
Re: Can't delete filebot.metadata files
Posted: 08 Sep 2022, 14:32
by EvilWayz
Thunar, smb2
Re: Can't delete filebot.metadata files
Posted: 08 Sep 2022, 15:11
by rednoah
Do you have a Windows or Mac machine? Do Windows Explorer / Mac Finder display xattr as files?
What software are you using on the server-side? Synology NAS? QNAP NAS? Custom Linux with SMB service installed? What file system are the files stored on on-device? ext4? Or perhaps an external NTFS drive that's just being shared? Feel free to elaborate on the context with many words. Feel free to investigate and try different things.
You can disable
xattr metadata to make FileBot not write xattr and thus not create the things that appear as
file:attribute items in your file manager. As for deleting them. Not sure. Maybe you can configure SMB to just not display them.