Folders not visible when adding media from a HDD mounted at media on Linux

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So, my issue is pretty simple (but I can’t figure out how to solve it and nothing I tried so far worked).
I have Mint installed on a 120 GB SSD and have 2 additional 2 TB HDDs. This HDDs are for my media (movies & tv shows) but when I create a library and try to add media from any of the 2 mentioned HDDs no folder structure shows up under those HDDs. This issue is not present when I try to add something from /home/username/abc for example. I can see every folder when I browser in /home/username/ but I can’t see any folder under /media/username/hddname.
I gave plex user rx permissions on /media/username/hddname but still nothing.
I even changed the path from /media/username/hddname to /home/username/hddname and still nothing, no folder created on the HDD is detected by plex.
Any suggestions or solutions are welcomed.

Thanks.

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depending on how you mounted those drives, your attempt to grant the plex user permissions might be in vain.
you could edit /etc/fstab to mount the drives accessible to all users or to the plex user in particular. default mounted drives are mounted for the active user (root when mounting during boot up, your own user, when mounting afterwards).
also… avoid mounting your media inside the /media directory :wink:

There’s a whole section of Linux tips and tricks in the tips, tricks and how-tos forum.

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Thanks for the answer, it seems that the way they are mounted is the culprit, I used the mount --bind command and plex now sees the subfolder structure from those HDDs, however I will have to edit fstab to make the mount permanent.