Duplicate section when sharing some libraries!

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Hi

I encounter a very strange issue with some Photo libraries. Till now I had only one Photo library in Plex. I decided to create two additional ones (as there is no way to narrow rights inside libraries themselves). These two additional sections are well created and I could add some photos in it as the first one, and I can access them easily through the different clients I use.
Then I decided to update rights of users of my PMS so some of these users can access some/all/none of these photo libraries. But when I go to edit right of a user, these two new photo libraries appear in double in list !! I changed of browser, restarted PMS, even the Linux server, but nothing to do !! Still appears in double all the time and whatever user I select !!
What to do ? Don’t tell me I have to delete and recreate these two libraries…
PMS: 1.13.6.5339

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Thanks

Vincèn

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Did you fix your issue? I also have that issue on version 1.13.6.5339.

Thanks

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just adding a “me too” to this thread. ive deleted and re-added the library and that did not resolve it for me.

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I’m migrating a windows server to a ubuntu server. I had to recreate new library and i have the same problem with the share, I see my 3 new library twice for each. PLex version 1.13.5.5332 on ubuntu 18.04LTS

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Ditto

Just did a fresh install on Ubuntu 18.04.

Kinda weird though. All of my libraries were duplicated except my Movies library.

Edit:

Server Version

1.13.6.5339

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Found the solution.

Not sure why it does that. But seems related to some latest updates to 18.04

So to fix the issue:
Login to your Plex Server -> Settings -> Devices
From the left menu select Server and then delete the related server.

Logoff and then relog to your account and then add your server back. Should fix the issue.

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Thanks for the trick but not really an acceptable solution as unpairing server from account means you are loosing all shares setup in server which is out of question for mine (too many users shared on it !).
Plex guys ??

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I too have many users. And I did not lost any user or share setup. Took 5min to reown the server and all was working again.

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Thanks for confirmation, I did the same and you are right, all “duplicate” libraries are no more there when I edit rights of an user :wink:

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Be careful, never do that, whatever you say, all shares have disappeared on all accounts shared in mine !! accounts are still listed but when you edit details they have no share at all !!

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I currently have the same issue. It happened after I decided to reinstall my server without decoupling it first. I then added a new server under the same name and as a result all the libraries are double in the sharing section. Also I didn’t bother backing up my database data, perhaps using that functionality might have prevented this. This happens on Ubuntu server 18.04.1.

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I tried all of the above and none of them worked . I ended up deleting the library and re-creating it. I also noticed the same library that was duplicated was also unable to update the posters for the movies. I did not need to delete the files just the Library itself.

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