Movie scanning

General Discussions
1

I’m new to ubuntu, I put PMS on and plex reads my wd passport external, but it doesn’t see my movies. Tried one answer from youtube and screwed my boot. I reinstalled OS and plex. Is there a way???

2

If you are accessing via USB, you need to control where Linux mounts it. Unless you do, user plex won’t be given access. (Gnome default is to grant you exclusive access and Linux is strict about security)

The rest of the Linux Tips are here to assist you

3

issue at gedit. I replaced your stuff with min.

Addtions for external and internal drives

Mount MULTIMEDIA (ext4) at /disks/MULTIMEDIA for Plex

UUID=def7a068-d775-4c53-bad8-95c91a219453 /disks/MULTIMEDIA ext4 defaults,auto,rw,nofail 0 1

And Im here on the terminal.

** (gedit:24203): WARNING **: 23:57:19.246: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (gedit:24203): WARNING **: 23:57:19.425: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

** (gedit:24203): WARNING **: 23:57:23.540: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (gedit:24203): WARNING **: 23:57:23.540: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

** (gedit:24203): WARNING **: 23:57:27.712: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported

gedit /etc/fstab

** (gedit:24420): WARNING **: 00:00:32.395: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (gedit:24420): WARNING **: 00:00:32.397: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

I only have one external Im trying to get read so your 3 confuses me a bit.was there another Im supposed to add?

4

First, Those gedit:24203 warnings are meaningless. It’s because it was started in the terminal. No harm. No foul.

The process TL;DR form is:

  1. Get the UUID and filesystem type info from the partition to mount using blkid (you have that)
  2. Create the mount point directory (Suspect you’ve done this too)
  3. Create the /etc/fstab entry for it (you’ve done)
  4. Save /etc/fstab (stay in the editor… just click the save button)
  5. At the command line, sudo mount /disks/MULTIMEDIA
  6. It should mount without error
  7. If it does have errors, man fstab will help you look for the typo in your FSTAB line or check the mount point directory name
  8. Now continue with setting directory (755) and file (644) permissions in the mounted disk so PMS can read. Also make your username owner (chown) if needed.

When there are no errors (mount, umount, mount), you can exit the text editor. You’re done.

5

Thank you for your help.I had it and somehow botched it trying to separate my personal vids.It was adding my home vids into my movie col. and some how it is not seeing my external again, but it is reading my desktop files. My external eludes me once more.Good news is Im becoming very intimate with the system. Will renaming my external and redoing process affect the positive outcome with the other files be affected?