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Media not showing up in libraries - GingeyBook - 2023-10-03

Just set up Jellyfin on a Rsspberry Pi, I have it pointing to a Movies and Shows folder. 
I currently have one show following the correct naming structure, but when I refresh, nothing appears. 

File path for the show is as follows /Shows/Name (Year) / Season 01 / Title S01E01

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RE: Media not showing up in libraries - TheDreadPirate - 2023-10-03

What are the permissions on those directories? Jellyfin needs read and execute permissions on the folders and read access to the files.

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - GingeyBook - 2023-10-03

That was the issue.

Thank you so much for the help!

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - GingeyBook - 2023-10-03

(2023-10-03, 07:02 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: What are the permissions on those directories?  Jellyfin needs read and execute permissions on the folders and read access to the files.

The show is appearing but now I am unable to see and watch individual episodes. 

File types are .mkv

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - TheDreadPirate - 2023-10-03

When you changed permissions did you add -R to make it recursive? What are the permissions on the individual files?

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - GingeyBook - 2023-10-03

(2023-10-03, 07:50 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: When you changed permissions did you add -R to make it recursive?  What are the permissions on the individual files?

I wasn't sure how to give permission to the Jellyfin user through the terminal so I did it in the Raspberry Pi GUI

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - TheDreadPirate - 2023-10-03

Run this command. Insert your user name before the colon : .

Code:
sudo chown -R yourUser:jellyfin /Shows
sudo chmod -R 750 /Shows


RE: Media not showing up in libraries - GingeyBook - 2023-10-03

(2023-10-03, 08:05 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Run this command.  Insert your user name before the colon : .

Code:
sudo chown -R yourUser:jellyfin /Shows
sudo chmod -R 750 /Shows

Looks like we're all set now. 

Thank you so much for the help

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - Kentros - 2023-11-30

Can you please assist me? My username is "kentros" so I changed that and the path to my folders.

"sudo chown -R kentros:jellyfin /media/movies

sudo chmod -R 750 /media/movies"

Got an error so I looked at a guide on setting up Jellyfin and created a Jellyfin user to use in place. Then I was able to run the commands with no errors. I then told Jellyfin to rescan but I am still not seeing anything.

I have a symbolic link to the "media/.." folders from "/mnt/HDD1/.." and "/mnt/HDD2/.." too. Would I need to do the CHOWN to those "/mnt/HDD1" and "/mnt/HDD2" folders?

RE: Media not showing up in libraries - TheDreadPirate - 2023-11-30

Can you describe your setup? What distro? You should need to create a jellyfin user if Jellyfin is installed on the same machine. It should have been created when you installed jellyfin (for package manager installs).