New movies are not shown when I add to movie folder. I had to manaully scan all library and wait long time in order have it appear In the past when I added a file the scan started automatically and in few second I could see the file. No setting changed, see attached [Immagine] .

On what platform is that Plex Media Server of yours? Linux based system (e.g. most NAS devices) have an OS configuration on how many folders can be monitored. If I remember correctly, the default in somewhere around 80k folders. If you have a large library you can end up beyond that threshold. I…

Thanks for reply, I have installed the server on a Win10 PC, the media files are on two external 4 Tb NAS HDD I have 4202 movies and some TV series Problem still persit, I added couple of movies yesterday and I could not see them until I performed a full scan

From what I remember automatic library scans don’t work on network drives. [image] Scanning vs Refreshing a Library | Plex Support Once a library has been created, it is processed by your Plex Media Server so all the media items are...

I see, it is also stated: Note : In most cases, this should work for content on local filesystems. It will generally not work for network shares mounted via SMB, NFS, AFP, or similar. Most of the cases! I have to figure out what has happened as before my vacation everything was working fine, prob…

SMB/CIFS supports directory change notifications, and Windows servers support directory change notifications really well. Samba also supports directory change notifications, but … it’s not uncommon for smaller NAS appliances to have issues with it. And cross-platform … weirdness. Sometimes they won…

“Have you recently added a bunch of media? You mentioned 4000+ items.” Not really, 4000 media have been added in the last 2 years since I started using Plex. Now I add 2-3 media a week, when new movies are available…

Random brainfart: if the SMB directory change check of SAMBA (which is the software that all those Linux-based NAS devices are using to offer Windows-compatible network shares) is relying on Linux inotify events, you may still have to check if you’ve exceeded the default folder count on your machin…

That’s clever, @OttoKerner . I looked to confirm. Samba checks for inotify.h on Linux, and uses it when “kernel change notify = yes”. @giabett , does your NAS give you the option to modify sysctls or tunables, as per @tom80H ’s first link? Or to add a startup script? Or get to a CLI prompt?

That’s very … Synology … of them. ChuckPA has instructions for QNAP too. [image] PMS library does not automatically update on QNAP NAS & Devices If it updates when you manually do it, then 99.9% certain you have > 8192 directories being monitored. The solution (which inc…

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