Is there a way to cause the library to be scanned from the TV app? I set the option to scan the library is changes. Then copy files to the library but they don’t show up.
You can set an automatic scan interval. If your media is on a NAS or a network like samba, plex can’t detect changes, so you’ll have to rely on the automatic scan interval. It’s in your plex server settings. Check the 4th box, then set a scan interval.
Why can’t Plex detect changes to a library on a Linux PC?
The PMS depends on the OS to notify about changes to the file system. The OS can only do that for local drives.
Network file protocols just don’t provide the kind of updates to the OS.
So, if we’re talking about drives inside your Linux machine, PMS should be able to automatically detect those changes (Linux or not). It the media is stored somewhere else, not so much.
I have not used a TV App in a while but if I remember correctly if you exit the app it will load on re entry. Caveat, will only work if the server has Scanned the Titles required
The PMS is running on a Linux PC when I copy Videos from a windows PC to the Linux PC Library location. It should see the changes.
I have a feeling we might be talking about different things.
Are you talking about an automatic or scan not picking your files up or Plex not seeing your files at all?
Once a copy is fully completed and you perform the Scan Library Updates action… will this show the newly added videos in your movie library? Let’s start with verifying this from the web app’s perspective. Once the videos are properly catalogued, they’ll also show up in the clients.
Side note: it’s generally good practice to avoid “remote copies” straight to the library folder – especially in combination with automatic library scans. Otherwise a copy in progress might trigger the automatic scan but be ignored by that because it’s still in progress (and there’s no additional file system event once the copy is completed). Instead, copy the files to a staging folder outside your libraries. When the copy is complete, transfer it to the target location (moving the file will still trigger the file system event but won’t have the above side effect).
That’s not specifically about Plex but how file systems work.
If Plex won’t pick up the files at all, we’ll need to dig a bit deeper. With a Linux machine, there’s always the possibility of a permission issue.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201543057-why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found/
I would think that this would cause the last file of say 6 files being copied. It may miss the first file because it wasn’t finished copying. But when the second file started copying. It should now see the first file that is done.
it sure should… if you manually trigger a library scan.
but the automated update is based on file system events – if the file system tells Plex there’s a new file, Plex will scan that file… not your entire library.
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