I’m a very new Plex user, and I’m trying to setup a server for the first time. I went through the setup process, and added the folders on my hard drive which contain my movies and TV shows. However, when I go to either the movies or TV shows library, Plex says “There are no items in this library”. I’ve followed the instructions on the support page for preparing media, as well as the instructions on the page for troubleshooting in the event that content is not found. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If your media is somewhere in your ‘home’ directory you’ll have extra problems. It should be moved out of there to a more neutral location that you control and Plex can read
If your media is somewhere in your ‘home’ directory you’ll have extra problems. It should be moved out of there to a more neutral location that you control and Plex can read
I read that page, and subsequently created a folder in the root of my hard drive called plexmedia. I set the ownership to my user, and changed the permissions to 755, recursively so that it was the same for any files or subdirectories. I then moved all my media from where it was before, in my home folder, to this new directory, and created new libraries in Plex for TV Shows and Movies with the new subdirectories added to each. However, when I look in those libraries in Plex I still cannot see my media.
I did what you said, however I’m still not getting any matches. I didn’t see an option to disable chapter thumbnails in the add library advanced settings, however I did disable video preview thumbnails as that seemed to be the closest in name to disabling chapter thumbnails. I also disabled local media assets under agent settings, I assume that’s the same thing as embedded metadata?
@Nayviler said:
I set the ownership to my user, and changed the permissions to 755, recursively so that it was the same for any files or subdirectories. I then moved all my media from where it was before, in my home folder, to this new directory
You moved the media AFTER you had set permissions of the directory plexmedia, is that right? So I have to assume, the permissions are still not correct. Please set the permissions NOW, e.g. chmod -R a+rX plexmedia. This will allow any user to read the files and any user to enter each sub-directory. Permissions on Linux are not automatically inherited (by default), -R does only change the permissions of the existing files at the time chmod is issued.
Edit: if this does not work, please tell us about the file system of your hard drive and your entry in /etc/fstab.
@Nayviler said:
I set the ownership to my user, and changed the permissions to 755, recursively so that it was the same for any files or subdirectories. I then moved all my media from where it was before, in my home folder, to this new directory
You moved the media AFTER you had set permissions of the directory plexmedia, is that right? So I have to assume, the permissions are still not correct. Please set the permissions NOW, e.g. chmod -R a+rX plexmedia. This will allow any user to read the files and any user to enter each sub-directory. Permissions on Linux are not automatically inherited (by default), -R does only change the permissions of the existing files at the time chmod is issued.
Edit: if this does not work, please tell us about the file system of your hard drive and your entry in /etc/fstab.
The library type is “Movies”
The directory to browse to is /plexmedia/movies.
As confirmation, you will all your movies show up in the right pane when you’re at the right place
This is where you ADD
The library type is “Movies”
The directory to browse to is /plexmedia/movies.
As confirmation, you will all your movies show up in the right pane when you’re at the right place
This is where you ADD
