Scanner getting looped somehow

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Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

Hi there, since a couple of days ago I started noticing that subtitles are disappearing from plex, but the files are still in the folder. So I noticed that the scanner never stopped working and then, viewing the alerts section, I noticed that, somehow the scanner is getting looped in the Folder or something like that.

Has anyone experienced something like this ? :slight_smile:

easy trick. Search for the symlink

cd /home/user/Plex
find . -type l -print

If you get no symlinks, then you have either a mount over another mount or a filesystem damage.

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Been thinking about this.

If it were a symlink or mount crossing another mount, it would be infinite.

Almost sounds like you had directory-relative ‘mkdir’ when placing media via automation? (absolute paths are the best)

Damn, I just made an ass of myself hahahah. Thank you very much. I somehow made a recursive symlink to the Movies folder inside de Movies folder. Never thought that something like this was happening

./Movies/Movies

:man_facepalming:

hahaha thank you !!

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I created a symlink to test some stuff, but I just remembered that I received a call just in that moment and pressed enter in the keyboard or something else while I was creating symlinks hahaha :slight_smile:

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