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Hi all, I have been running a Plex server on a (now) Windows 11 PC since 2018 when I got the lifetime pass, and recently moved my media to a QNAP NAS. In doing so, Plex’s autoscan feature stopped working. I understand that many people have this arrangement working, and others can not. Everything else is working perfectly, and I can successfully scan libraries manually, but I would really prefer a quick partial scan, especially when I want to stream something right away. I built the PC specifically for Plex, so I don’t want to move the server to the less powerful QNAP NAS.
Plex advises that this setup will generally not work for network shares mounted via SMB, NFS, AFP, or similar.
So I can either do a complete reinstall of my Plex server and hope nothing bad happens and it magically fixes it, or I can look at alternatives.
I would like to look at alternatives, but with ZERO experience with Linux, Docker, etc. I am getting overwhelmed. I have looked at Sonarr and Radarr and I don’t think I need the functionalities there. I don’t download a LOT of media, I have a few things I watch and I don’t have a problem manually filing it etc. All I am missing is the autoscan functionality.
I have seen mentions of Autoscan via Cloudbox or Saltbox but I have zero idea how to get them installed or whether they are installed on the Windows Plex box or the QNAP NAS.
I am not an idiot when it comes to the PC side, but I am a complete wide-eyed newbie in Linux. My first foray this week was getting a Raspberry Pi and installing Pi Hole on it successfully - but there are some really good instructions out there…
Can anyone help out? Thanks in advance!
