# How Do I do Library Scan for Particular folder for second time?
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files
**Tags:** library-management
**Created:** [April 11, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464 "2019-04-11T06:50:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@CinePlexBD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CinePlexBD)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/1 "2019-04-11T06:50:26Z")
Hi there,
Is there anyway I can refresh metadata for a particular folder?
I have over 5 thousand file in like 12 folders and I don’t like to refresh metadata for all folder at one go.
I’m using Centos 7
Thanks
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/2 "2019-04-11T07:48:06Z")
Why do you feel the need to refresh metadata for whole folders?
This is nothing that should be done regularly.
Or do you mean you want to update your library, to include newly added files?
That is technically not a ‘Refresh’ but a ‘library scan’.
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### Author:  [@CinePlexBD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CinePlexBD)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/3 "2019-04-11T07:49:22Z")
Sorry, yes “Library Scan”
How do I do it?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/4 "2019-04-11T07:59:57Z")
AFAIK only per command line parameters
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/201242707-plex-media-scanner-via-command-line/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201242707-plex-media-scanner-via-command-line/)
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### Author:  [@CinePlexBD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CinePlexBD)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/5 "2019-04-11T19:08:34Z")
I just realized, I actually need to do “Refresh Metadata” so that the plugin “SubZero” can download missing subtitles.
Here is the sample directory of a movie folder,
`/var/www/html/fs1/Movies/English Movies/(2012)`
What would be the command to do “Refresh Metadata” for the above path using commandline in CentOS
and at the link u posted above, it says about item number, how do I find out the item number of a folder that I like to scan or refresh?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@CinePlexBD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CinePlexBD)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/6 "2019-04-12T20:09:07Z")
Anyone willing to help here this novice person?
I’m getting this …
```auto
[root@localhost ~]# /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Scanner --list
-bash: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/ --list
-bash: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/: Is a directory
```
PMS version: Version 1.14.1.5488
@ChuckPa Maybe you? Please
Thanks a lot
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### Author:  [@CinePlexBD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CinePlexBD)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/7 "2019-04-19T20:25:34Z")
1 week gone and Seriously No One would assist me on this as i’m a novice?
It makes no value that I’m a Plex Pass user?
Disappointing.
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### Author:  [@Flanders](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Flanders)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/8 "2019-04-25T11:46:04Z")
Read what the error message is telling you.
-bash: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/ **Plex** : No such file or directory
The spaces in your command (i.e. “Plex Media Scanner”) are being ignored.
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### Author:  [@gsalva](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gsalva)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/9 "2019-06-01T22:42:55Z")
This is not a Plex issue, you’re using the command wrong, you should add backslash every space like this:
/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner --list
Please refer to some website to learn about how to deal with spaces in folders/ filenames in Linux.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-do-i-do-library-scan-for-particular-folder-for-second-time/398464/10 "2019-08-30T22:43:11Z")
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