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Content not showing in a new library - IandJelly - 2025-03-09

I've been using Jellyfin for a while now with two libraries, named Movies and Shows, without any major issues. I created a new library called Shorts (type Movies) and moved content from the Movies library to the Shorts library but no matter what I do I cannot manage to get Jellyfin to see it so no content is showing up in the Shorts library.

All permissions and groups are set the same between all libraries, 775 for directories, 664 for files and jellyfin group and user). I scanned for contents and the user I'm using has access to all libraries. Logs don't show any errors either. I tried searching for threads but I couldn't figure out what I am missing. Any help would be appreciated.

RE: Content not showing in a new library - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-09

Is the new library located on an entirely different storage device? Or network share?

RE: Content not showing in a new library - IandJelly - 2025-03-09

(2025-03-09, 07:35 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Is the new library located on an entirely different storage device?  Or network share?

The new library is on the same storage device as the two other libraries, like this:

/jellyfinmedia/tv
/jellyfinmedia/movies
/jellyfinmedia/shorts

I'm really stumped what it could be. I've been reading any post that resembles my issue, made sure there are no differences between the libraries that could cause this and checked all options but it didn't lead to any breakthroughs. I also turned on the debug log but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

RE: Content not showing in a new library - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-10

Can you show the exact output of "ls -l" on "/jellyfinmedia"?

RE: Content not showing in a new library - IandJelly - 2025-03-10

(2025-03-10, 01:39 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Can you show the exact output of "ls -l" on "/jellyfinmedia"?
Sure. All permissions appear identical.

Octal Permissions Size User    Group  Name
0775  drwxrwxr-x@    - jellyfin jellyfin   /jellyfinmedia/movies
0775  drwxrwxr-x@    - jellyfin jellyfin   /jellyfinmedia/shorts
0775  drwxrwxr-x@    - jellyfin jellyfin   /jellyfinmedia/tv

RE: Content not showing in a new library - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-10

What is the output of "xattr -l" on each folder? The "@" at the end of the permissions indicates "extended attributes".

RE: Content not showing in a new library - IandJelly - 2025-03-10

(2025-03-10, 03:28 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: What is the output of "xattr -l" on each folder?  The "@" at the end of the permissions indicates "extended attributes".
The extended attributes are Selinux contexts.

Code:
Octal Permissions Size User    Group  Name
0775  drwxrwxr-x@    - jellyfin jellyfin   /jellyfinmedia/movies
                                                            └── security.selinux: "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0"
0775  drwxrwxr-x@    - jellyfin jellyfin  /jellyfinmedia/shorts
                                                            └── security.selinux: "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0"
0775  drwxrwxr-x@    - jellyfin jellyfin  /jellyfinmedia/tv
                                                            └── security.selinux: "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0"

The xattr -l shows the same for each folder:

Code:
security.selinux:
0000  75 6E 63 6F 6E 66 69 6E 65 64 5F 75 3A 6F 62 6A   unconfined_u:obj
0010  65 63 74 5F 72 3A 75 73 65 72 5F 68 6F 6D 65 5F   ect_r:user_home_
0020  74 3A 73 30 00                                    t:s0.

FYI the "user_home_t" type is due to /jellyfinmedia being a mount of a directory in my home partition. This is temporary before I will copy the content to a dedicated solution.

RE: Content not showing in a new library - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-10

So you mounted a folder in your home directory as /jellyfinmedia? I'm assuming you did this because your eventual storage will also be mounted at that location? So you avoid having to rescan your library?

I've never done this before, and I'm wondering how similar it would behave to symlinks. Have you checked the permissions back at the home folder? I'm not sure whether the permissions reported in /jellyfinmedia would match the original mount location.

Also, what distro are you using? I'm assuming some RHEL derivative?

RE: Content not showing in a new library - IandJelly - 2025-03-10

(2025-03-10, 04:13 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: So you mounted a folder in your home directory as /jellyfinmedia?  I'm assuming you did this because your eventual storage will also be mounted at that location?  So you avoid having to rescan your library?

I've never done this before, and I'm wondering how similar it would behave to symlinks.  Have you checked the permissions back at the home folder?  I'm not sure whether the permissions reported in /jellyfinmedia would match the original mount location.

I chose this approach because my home partition had the most available free space and I need a lot to be able to digitize my DVD/BR collection. I first setup out to use symlinks but that didn't seem to work with jellyfin if I recall correctly.

The permissions on the directory in home and any changes to it carry through instantly to /jellyfinmedia. If none of the three folders that make up the libraries worked I'd have a much easier time.

I also just added a music library using /jellyfinmedia/music as a folder and added an album to test things out and everything just works. So it makes me think this has to be related to Jellyfin refusing to work with two separate Movie libraries with my setup.

Quote:Also, what distro are you using?  I'm assuming some RHEL derivative?
Yes, I'm using Fedora at the moment.

I'm pondering just reinstalling jellyfin and try to see if my approach of mounting a home directory is to blame. In any case I like to thank you for all the help you've provided. It's much appreciated.

RE: Content not showing in a new library - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-10

A thought occurred. "Shorts" is a reserved directory name.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/#extras-folders

Change the folder name to "movie shorts" or something like that.