Automatic scan of new TV shows not working most of the time

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There’s limitations to how many directories Linux will monitor by default (a little over 8k). If you’re anywhere near that value, you can increase it…

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Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…

Keep in mind that automatic scans don’t work reliably (or at all) on network drives etc.