# Auto-Scan doesn't work

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-scan-doesnt-work/895537>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-synology\
**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-scan-doesnt-work/895537 "2024-11-15T11:32:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-scan-doesnt-work/895537/5 "2024-11-15T15:42:36Z")

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Consider this:

> [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/490215/22):
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> FAQ 16: Increase the number of folders Plex can monitor Applicable to all supported versions of DSM. When the Linux ‘inotify’ table fills up, this will cause when Plex to stop automatically detecting new media you add to the server. It will also manifest when there are transcoder problems with Dolby audio codecs. Linux has a default table size which is static. We can increase this at will. On some versions it’s 8192. On newer kernels, the default is 65536 folders. This is easy to incr…

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