Why the FREAK do my movies keep disappearing from my plex server???????????????????????

@twofingerpoi said:
Ubuntu 17.10 with RAID5 w LVM on 4 WD40EFRX, running Plex 3.31.1 and some containers including Transmission, Couchpotato, SickRage and Headphones.

No errors in the OS logs, etc. Webmin and Portainer report no issues.

Movies seem to periodically and randomly come up missing. No evidence of an issue in the Plex logs. Remote Access is disabled. Library>Empty Trash is disabled. Library>Allow media deletion is disabled.

I don’t have any issues with losing music or tv files, only movies. No other files on the system, such as photos, etc come up missing. Only movies. Only Plex and Couchpotato manage those files.

I have grep’ed the logs for “filesystem” and “ERROR” but not sure what else to look for. Suggestions?

How frequent does it happen?
You could run with large number of logs = say 50 or 80 and capture the logs as soon as you notice it and regularly keeping track of what is there. May be periodically you run this tool http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/254248/rel-exporttools/p1

For increasing number of log files - the advanced hidden setting is LogNumFiles - see https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/