# Scanner getting looped somehow

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [October 25, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349 "2024-10-25T02:19:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmmx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b3f665/32.png) [@pmmx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pmmx)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349/1 "2024-10-25T02:19:27Z")

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Server Version#: 1.41.1.9057  
Plaver Version#: 4.138.0  
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.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/a/3/5/a35b5e422355fb3715681ce39c4e3420275dd0f8.png)

Has anyone experienced something like this ? 🙂

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349/2 "2024-10-25T02:34:24Z")

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easy trick. Search for the symlink

```auto
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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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349/3 "2024-10-25T02:58:46Z")

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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)

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**Author:** ![pmmx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b3f665/32.png) [@pmmx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pmmx)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349/4 "2024-10-25T03:03:19Z")

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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

```auto
./Movies/Movies

```

🤦‍♂️

hahaha thank you !!

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**Author:** ![pmmx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b3f665/32.png) [@pmmx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pmmx)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349/5 "2024-10-25T03:19:08Z")

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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 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scanner-getting-looped-somehow/893349/6 "2025-01-23T03:19:45Z")

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