# Automatic/Partial Scanning has stopped **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-synology\ **Created:** [February 14, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatic-partial-scanning-has-stopped/690567 "2021-02-14T18:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [February 15, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatic-partial-scanning-has-stopped/690567/2 "2021-02-15T00:49:20Z")
@A_Bot How many folders are being used to store the media (inclusive of all subfolders) ? Linux has a default limit of 8192. If you exceed this, PMS won’t be able to automatically detect changes. It’s easy to increase the number of folders PMS can monitor on Synology. Please read here and see if this applies to you. > [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/topic/490215/22): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatic-partial-scanning-has-stopped/690567)._