Plex media server is not detecting symbolic link
I configured plex server in my Arch Linux. While setting the media folder the folder which contains a symbolic link content is not listing in media server.
I added the current user to the plex group.
Please let us know anyone getting the same issue
arch-linux plex
asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
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I configured plex server in my Arch Linux. While setting the media folder the folder which contains a symbolic link content is not listing in media server.
I added the current user to the plex group.
Please let us know anyone getting the same issue
arch-linux plex
asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
1516
add a comment |
I configured plex server in my Arch Linux. While setting the media folder the folder which contains a symbolic link content is not listing in media server.
I added the current user to the plex group.
Please let us know anyone getting the same issue
arch-linux plex
asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
1516
I configured plex server in my Arch Linux. While setting the media folder the folder which contains a symbolic link content is not listing in media server.
I added the current user to the plex group.
Please let us know anyone getting the same issue
arch-linux plex
arch-linux plex
asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
1516
asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
1516
asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
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asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
VipinVipin
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asked May 22 '18 at 9:43
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I was wrong. After fiddling with symlinks, I realized my mistake. Target folders/files need reading permissions. You have to chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER. Now the symbolic links work as intended.
Original answer
As far as I can tell, Plex doesn't recognize symbolic links. I've tried symlinks to both, files and folders, to no avail. This discussion from 2013–2015 in a plex forum suggest to symlink directories, but it didn't work for me.
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
1
You can do amount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.
– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
add a comment |
I have the same problem. I do not like hardlinks, and PLEX does not seem to play nice with symlinks. Fortunately, thanks to this reddit comment, I found that symlinking relatively to the current directory works for PLEX. This means that the symlink must not be absolute, but relative to the folder PLEX scans.
A link which points to /mnt/RAID1/PLEX/Movies/something must become ../Movies/something.
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
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Edited answer
I was wrong. After fiddling with symlinks, I realized my mistake. Target folders/files need reading permissions. You have to chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER. Now the symbolic links work as intended.
Original answer
As far as I can tell, Plex doesn't recognize symbolic links. I've tried symlinks to both, files and folders, to no avail. This discussion from 2013–2015 in a plex forum suggest to symlink directories, but it didn't work for me.
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
1
You can do amount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.
– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
add a comment |
Edited answer
I was wrong. After fiddling with symlinks, I realized my mistake. Target folders/files need reading permissions. You have to chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER. Now the symbolic links work as intended.
Original answer
As far as I can tell, Plex doesn't recognize symbolic links. I've tried symlinks to both, files and folders, to no avail. This discussion from 2013–2015 in a plex forum suggest to symlink directories, but it didn't work for me.
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
1
You can do amount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.
– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
add a comment |
Edited answer
I was wrong. After fiddling with symlinks, I realized my mistake. Target folders/files need reading permissions. You have to chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER. Now the symbolic links work as intended.
Original answer
As far as I can tell, Plex doesn't recognize symbolic links. I've tried symlinks to both, files and folders, to no avail. This discussion from 2013–2015 in a plex forum suggest to symlink directories, but it didn't work for me.
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
Edited answer
I was wrong. After fiddling with symlinks, I realized my mistake. Target folders/files need reading permissions. You have to chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER. Now the symbolic links work as intended.
Original answer
As far as I can tell, Plex doesn't recognize symbolic links. I've tried symlinks to both, files and folders, to no avail. This discussion from 2013–2015 in a plex forum suggest to symlink directories, but it didn't work for me.
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
edited May 23 '18 at 16:39
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
answered May 22 '18 at 15:05
LudenticusLudenticus
1216
1216
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
1
You can do amount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.
– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
add a comment |
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
1
You can do amount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.
– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
Thanks . My problem is, I have a external drive which need to be added to plex media Server. So without using symbolic link how can I do this? Otherwise. I need to copy all the videos present in extenal drive to my system while running plex.
– Vipin
May 22 '18 at 15:39
1
1
You can do a
mount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
You can do a
mount --bind. This can also be added to fstab.– Mikael Kjær
May 23 '18 at 5:09
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@MikaelKjær Can you please give me little more information
– Vipin
May 26 '18 at 6:53
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@Vipin Basically it mounts a folder into another folder. Here is a guide for it: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
– Mikael Kjær
May 27 '18 at 5:09
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
@ Mikael Kjær @Ludenticus chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER is not working. mount --bind seems to be working. But i'm getting another issue my external disk is /dev/sdb1 it is mounting properly at /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk. And I'm try to mount --bind /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk/Mydata/Film/ /plexmedia/movies . It is working fine. But my /run/media/vipin/USBDataDisk mounting point is replaced with /plexmedia/movies
– Vipin
May 29 '18 at 20:44
add a comment |
I have the same problem. I do not like hardlinks, and PLEX does not seem to play nice with symlinks. Fortunately, thanks to this reddit comment, I found that symlinking relatively to the current directory works for PLEX. This means that the symlink must not be absolute, but relative to the folder PLEX scans.
A link which points to /mnt/RAID1/PLEX/Movies/something must become ../Movies/something.
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
add a comment |
I have the same problem. I do not like hardlinks, and PLEX does not seem to play nice with symlinks. Fortunately, thanks to this reddit comment, I found that symlinking relatively to the current directory works for PLEX. This means that the symlink must not be absolute, but relative to the folder PLEX scans.
A link which points to /mnt/RAID1/PLEX/Movies/something must become ../Movies/something.
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
add a comment |
I have the same problem. I do not like hardlinks, and PLEX does not seem to play nice with symlinks. Fortunately, thanks to this reddit comment, I found that symlinking relatively to the current directory works for PLEX. This means that the symlink must not be absolute, but relative to the folder PLEX scans.
A link which points to /mnt/RAID1/PLEX/Movies/something must become ../Movies/something.
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
I have the same problem. I do not like hardlinks, and PLEX does not seem to play nice with symlinks. Fortunately, thanks to this reddit comment, I found that symlinking relatively to the current directory works for PLEX. This means that the symlink must not be absolute, but relative to the folder PLEX scans.
A link which points to /mnt/RAID1/PLEX/Movies/something must become ../Movies/something.
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
answered Jan 11 at 16:21
AF7AF7
12618
12618
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
add a comment |
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
You do a mount with --bind option that was the only solution Working for me.
– Vipin
Jan 11 at 16:27
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
Symlinks did work for me in the end, and I find them to be more flexible. Maybe it depends on the setup, Plex really loves if all of the media resides in the Media folder and is not happy if this does not happen.
– AF7
Jan 12 at 17:07
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
How did you made the symbolic link work?
– Vipin
Jan 12 at 17:09
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
@Vipin, as I said, I just had to make sure the link was relative. Afterwards, I verified that also having an absolute link worked, but only if the target was inside Media, for some reason. Plex is weird.
– AF7
Jan 13 at 18:10
add a comment |
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