Plex not recognizing many of my MKV files

[FordGuy61]

@tvannaman2000

When I go into info for the whole season, it will only list 10 episodes. I renamed them to the sxxexx version and there was no difference

Linux has a limit on the number of directories it can monitor. When exceeded, Plex does not pick up new media added to the system. I do not know if this applies to unraid (I run Plex on a Synology NAS).

If this is happening, you will see iNotify errors in the Plex log files. Look in Plex Media Server.log (wraps to .1.log…5.log).
Aug 06, 2019 17:15:24.569 [0x7fcb07fff700] WARN - [Notify] Received unexpected inotify event: 8192

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Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…