Plex is mis-reading a directory name, so all my content is unavailable

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.22.3.4523-d0ce30438

So, I just did a complete wipe and reformat of my computer and installed Big Sur (long story) and I was able to restore all my Plex settings and data just fine. The issue is that all my media is stored on a Drobo named “Videos,” So movies are in /Volumes/Videos/Movies, etc.

But for some reason, Plex is seeing that directory as /Volumes/Videos 1/etc. Now I’ve gone to Disk Utility, and its name is “Videos” – I went into terminal and ran “diskutil list” and THAT shows as “Videos.” Only Plex is seeing it as Videos 1, and its not seeing two instances of it. That’s still the only one.

Now, yeah, I COULD just redirect it to look for my media in this imaginary folder, but there’s more: When I first noticed this, my Videos drive AND my backup drive (named DeLorean) BOTH had a 1 appended to their names in Plex. I rebooted, thinking that might fix it, and it DID fix DeLorean, but not Videos. So I worry that if I redirect my library to Videos 1, that at some point it’s going to fix itself and all my media is going to be unavailable.

Any ideas how I can get it to fix this now?

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I’ve seen that issue before. If I remember correctly, macOS memorized there’s already a device with that name mapped and therefore adds a number as a suffix to the new share.

Take a look if this guide is helping to fix this:
https://macissues.com/2015/05/18/fix-your-macs-network-name-getting-2-appended-to-it/

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