This discussion was created from comments split from: Plex scans outside specified libary folders!!! (ignores folder-config for mounted file share folder).
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so ive run into the same situation just using network shares. if I give plex access to the root of the drive it will scan all sub folders. example. there is a network drive labeled D:\ and in D:\ there are sub folders D:\a-l D:\pictures D:\music. if I just add a directory such as tell plex that the directory is movies and point it to D:\movies it not only scans that directory but all the subsequent directories around it so ill find my home vides from D:\pictures added in there as well.
my way around this issue was to set up the remote system to share out the folder individually and then mount them as network drives on the plex server.
due to the amount of data I have I got tired of dealing with individual drives and made a big raid array which is mounted directly to the plex server. I now find my self in the same predicament as the rest of the guys on this posting. If you need logs fine tell me how and what you want. ill be happy to provide them but this needs to be fixed or instructions on how to avoid this issue would be nice.
Thank you,
If you need logs fine tell me how and what you want. ill be happy to provide them but this needs to be fixed or instructions on how to avoid this issue would be nice.
See the FAQs Q11 and Q12 - here
Copy out all the Plex Media Scanner and plex Media server log files - and zip and attach
Better to restart the server and do a specific test for one library and do a scan and then if scans wrong areas, to get all the logs and indication of what went wrong
Actually, I recommend to install WebTools instead.
After doing so, it’ll download all logs in a zip in one go, and WebTools even comes with a QNAP Installer
github.com/ukdtom/WTInstaller/wiki/QNAP
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dane22. the instructions seems to be either for linux or for some other OS which I am not using. actually plex is installed on windows server 2012r2 Datacenter
sa2000 the logs you requested
@icedragon2002002 said:
sa2000 the logs you requested
one of your libraries has the whole E:\ as the path for that library
also another has the whole Y:\ as the path.
Please edit your paths or delete everything and start again
Specify Paths at folder level
So for example for a music library, the path would be E:\Music
For the Y:\ drive, create folders and move the media files into them, Eg Y:\Videos and specify that as a path
Picking from what is in the scanner logs - you have a movies library and a Premium Music Library - both having the same path - the whole of the E:\ Drive !
This is not recommended at all
So review all your libraries by going through each library listed on the left column, clicking on the Edit pencil icon and then when the edit dialogue box pops up, click on Add Folders. This will allow you to see what paths you have specified
Study all the Naming Standards documents here and review your library structure
See Media Preparation
@sa2000 said:
@icedragon2002002 said:
sa2000 the logs you requestedone of your libraries has the whole
E:\as the path for that libraryalso another has the whole
Y:\as the path.Please edit your paths or delete everything and start again
Specify Paths at folder level
So for example for a music library, the path would be
E:\MusicFor the Y:\ drive, create folders and move the media files into them, Eg
Y:\Videosand specify that as a path
weird. I guess it didnt save or take my click when I chose the sub folder. nice catch.
I dont have anything that pointing to a Y drive since Y does not exist at all.
I have made the changes and double checked that plex took my sub folder selections. now for the long scan to complete.
update to come in a few days.
@icedragon2002002 said:
@sa2000 said:
@icedragon2002002 said:
sa2000 the logs you requestedone of your libraries has the whole
E:\as the path for that libraryalso another has the whole
Y:\as the path.Please edit your paths or delete everything and start again
Specify Paths at folder level
So for example for a music library, the path would be
E:\MusicFor the Y:\ drive, create folders and move the media files into them, Eg
Y:\Videosand specify that as a pathweird. I guess it didnt save or take my click when I chose the sub folder. nice catch.
I dont have anything that pointing to a Y drive since Y does not exist at all.I have made the changes and double checked that plex took my sub folder selections. now for the long scan to complete.
update to come in a few days.
Sorry it was my mistake. There is no Y:\ - all were pointing to E:\ showing in the logs
I am probably not technical enough to help, except to say that I installed Plex on my Synology RAID array yesterday, which contains 3TB of personal data, as well as my Music library. I set Plex up with a library folder pointing to the Music folder - and it immediately started scanning the whole 3TB drive - which is (1) rude, and (2) a security violation. I’ve uninstalled the package from my RAID drive for now, because I can’t really trust a package that does that kind of arbitrary access of my data.
@abqdan@gmail.com said:
I am probably not technical enough to help, except to say that I installed Plex on my Synology RAID array yesterday, which contains 3TB of personal data, as well as my Music library. I set Plex up with a library folder pointing to the Music folder - and it immediately started scanning the whole 3TB drive - which is (1) rude, and (2) a security violation. I’ve uninstalled the package from my RAID drive for now, because I can’t really trust a package that does that kind of arbitrary access of my data.
Raise the issue on the synology plex media server forum. In all such cases where evidence has been provided, it has been user error where the wrong paths specified for library contents
Please provide screenshots of the library setup - see the Add Folders screenshot on this support page
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200289266-Editing-Libraries
and Plex Media Server.log and Plex Media Scanner.log when you believe it is scanning outside the specified path
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250417-Plex-Media-Server-Log-Files
I had the same problem: chosen only one folder, was getting the all the disks scanned. What was happening - I was choosing the root of one of the disks. Done it several times - same result, it scans the entire computer (runs Windows 10 btw).
Decided to create a sub folder on the disk F:/Videos - and create a library out of it - all worked smoothly and no unnecessary scans happened. So it seem like Plex has got probles with disk’s root folders as the library location.
That’s why Plex documentation says don’t do it.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381023-naming-movie-files/
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It’d be great if setup wizard would warn about that, doesn’t seem too big of a check to do on behalf of the software 
I guess I’m old-school and read documentation.
