What causes QNAP to change it's share URL?

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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I have noticed sometimes when I add a shared folder to Plex on a QNAP NAS, sometimes folder can be found under:

share/Media Collection/Movies

and other times the only option in the Plex folder picker is:

CACHEDEV1_DATA/Media Collection/Movies

The “share” parent folder isn’t visible in the Plex dialog, but after browsing into CACHEDEV1_DATA the “share” parent folder gets inserted automatically for a path that looks like:

share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Media Collection/Movies

Does anyone know what is causing the difference?

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Are you using the Multimedia shared folder with the Codex Pack?

Those two, specifically Codex Pack, are known to change the apparent location.

Changing of /share/Folder to requiring /share/CACHDEVx_DATA/Folder is also related to the sharing permissions of the shared folder itself.

If the shared folder isn’t shared for SMB or NFS then it won’t be listed under /share/SharedFolderName

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I’ve never seen or heard of the Codex Pack. Unless one of the apps installs that behind the scene then I doubt that is being used.

I haven’t changed any folder permissions in years. Whatever is causing the change happens randomly. I didn’t notice it until I had added some libraries and then months later added another folder to the library and the path had the CACHEDEV in there. At that time I assumed it was just one of the OS upgrades made some changes.

Then later I added a new library and found the old share/Folder string back like it originally was.

Then just today I was going to add a new library again, and the CACHEDEV folder path is back.

I figured there has to be something besides server upgrades causing it.

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