File scan does not add symbolic link files to library in Windows

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.32.8.7639
OS: Windows 10

On a Windows 10 computer I’m trying to organize a library where the source is mounted via a pretty messy rclone drive. The files and names in the mounted drive are not changeable and do not conform to Plex standards. To make things cleaner for plex (and myself) I make symbolic links to those files and name them correctly in a standard folder structure for Plex to use, but Plex seems to just skip over the symbolic link files when scanning the folders.

As a test, I have done the same in a Linux Plex server and that seems to work fine - the symlink files are simply imported into Plex without issue.

Does Plex for Windows simply not support symbolic links?

Thanks!

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You can only use hard links.

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That is good to know, thanks! Before I start planning a move to Linux, do you happen know if the symlink support in Linux is officially supported, or just happens to work currently?

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Sorry, I’ve no idea about Linux. You might be able to search for user experience reports in this very forum though.

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