Amazon Cloud Drive with Non-Cloud Plex Not Updating Libraries

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I’m using Netdrive2 on Windows 10 to mount my Amazon Cloud Drive as a network drive. I pointed several plex libraries towards directories on there, and streaming has been working fine.

However, library updates are slow, and I have to manually start them when new content is added. Is this an issue with Plex or Netdrive2?

Also, random shows/movies have a garbage can icon overlayed on them (I turned off auto-delete). Is this because Plex encountered an error while scanning, and thinks the media has been deleted? It stays even after I re-scan the library.

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This is normal when dealing with network drives with cloud, for both Google Drive and Amazon Cloud drive. As for it being Plex’s or Amazon’s issue, i think its a little bit of both.

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Is there any way Plex can fix this?

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Meaning, are they able to tweak their code to play better with network storage?

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I am guessing yes… but will they change it, probably not

The reason is, they do not need to, since Plex Cloud does this.

Plex Cloud uses a special modified scanner. Which allows fast scans with the movies library. (About 3 min for close to 2000 movies). Television shows are not optimized yet and still take forever.

I really don’t see them adding the special scanner to the Plex Media Server. There is no need to, most people will be using Plex Cloud for what you are attempting to do. If by chance maybe enough people request for it to be added, then they might, which would be awesome, since you could use encryption with the drive.

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@Kraevin said:
I am guessing yes… but will they change it, probably not

The reason is, they do not need to, since Plex Cloud does this.

Plex Cloud uses a special modified scanner. Which allows fast scans with the movies library. (About 3 min for close to 2000 movies). Television shows are not optimized yet and still take forever.

I really don’t see them adding the special scanner to the Plex Media Server. There is no need to, most people will be using Plex Cloud for what you are attempting to do. If by chance maybe enough people request for it to be added, then they might, which would be awesome, since you could use encryption with the drive.

The problem with Plex Cloud is that server instances aren’t always alive. So they only scan when woken up.

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For now yes. but it’s still beta too