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Missing media in Jellyfin - Library partially loaded - fiore42 - 2025-01-24
This is a case of RTFM, but I lost few hours on it so I wanted to share in case I'm not the only one facing this issue
The folder structure of Jellyfin is not a suggestion, but it's a mandate.
If you have a media folder /data which contains /data/tv and /data/movies you CANNOT add just /data and be done with it.
It will only load stray files in these subfolder (e.g. data/tv/abc_S01E01.avi) but it will COMPLETELY IGNORE /data/tv/xyz_season1/*.
Same goes for movies subfolders.
I removed the container, deleted my client, parsed logs, searched for hours.
My bad luck was that I had exactly one stray movie and one stray tv episode, making it hard to see the pattern.
Anyway, fixed it by adding a separate library for each folder in which I had subfolders.
You CANNOT add /data and expect the software to figure it out.
Question: is there a setting to allow recursive analysis of subfolders?
Thank you for your great work!
RE: Missing media in Jellyfin - Library partially loaded - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-24
There is no way to change the way Jellyfin traverses directories. As you said, follow the Jellyfin documentation for folder structure, or else.