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Real time monitoring not working - jackysee - 2025-06-03
I'm migrating my docker jellyfin to another NAS. While jellyfin can list and play my library OK, I find that it can't do real time monitoring now. If I do a manual scan, jellyfin can find the newly added files and add to collection. I check the docker log and find these errors:
Code:
[11:57:03] [ERR] [29] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Permission error for Directory watcher: /data/TV
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/data/TV' is denied.
---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
[11:57:03] [ERR] [27] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Permission error for Directory watcher: /data/shows
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/data/shows' is denied.
---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
[11:57:03] [ERR] [24] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Permission error for Directory watcher: /data/movies
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/data/movies' is denied.
---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---So it definitely is a permission error. I have checked all the mapped volumes do have the same user/group as the PUID/PGID I passed into the docker compose. (I'm using linuxserver image) The volumes are directly on the NAS, not network mount.
I also tested using PUID/PGID as 0:0 and the exception would go away. But I don't want to give the docker container this access to mess up the permission on disk when it writes nfo/jpg to the folders.
Is there anything I missed?
RE: Real time monitoring not working - bitmap - 2025-06-19
Have you tried to chown the files in question?