# Witchcraft ?!

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/witchcraft/801394>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-synology, playback\
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/witchcraft/801394 "2022-07-20T07:23:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/witchcraft/801394/14 "2022-07-28T15:34:29Z")

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To add to Otto,

This type error usually happens when you have a large number of folders which PMS is monitoring (automatic).

Work through this FAQ .

If it applies to you, then apply the final steps to implement the changes it shows.

> [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/synology-faq-questions-answers-and-a-few-how-tos/490215/22):
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> FAQ 16: Increase the number of folders Plex can monitor Applicable to all supported versions of DSM. When the Linux ‘inotify’ table fills up, this will cause when Plex to stop automatically detecting new media you add to the server. It will also manifest when there are transcoder problems with Dolby audio codecs. Linux has a default table size which is static. We can increase this at will. On some versions it’s 8192. On newer kernels, the default is 65536 folders. This is easy to incr…

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