Library Realtime Monitoring not working

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Library Realtime Monitoring not working - Dockey - 2025-11-28

Hi,

I am having issues with real time monitoring of my libraries.
Jellyfin does not automatically update when files are added in a library folder, but triggering a manual library scan works well.

My set up:
Jellyfin (10.11.3) is hosted in a docker container.

Compose:

Code:
  jellyfin:

    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest

    container_name: jellyfin

    environment:

      - PUID=1000

      - PGID=10

      - TZ=${TZ}

    volumes:

      - /volume1/docker/jellyfin-stack/config/jellyfin:/config

      - /volume1/docker/jellyfin-stack/data/cache/jellyfin:/cache

      - /volume1/video/tv-shows:/data/media/tv

      - /volume1/video/movies:/data/media/movies

    ports:

      - 8096:8096

      - 7359:7359/udp

    devices:

      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

    restart: unless-stopped

At startup I can see in the logs that the Directory Watcher is having permission issues. But after that it still claims to be watching?..:

Code:
[18:23:51] [ERR] [9] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Permission error for Directory watcher: /data/media/movies

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/data/media/movies' is denied.

---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

[18:23:51] [ERR] [15] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Permission error for Directory watcher: /data/media/tv

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/data/media/tv' is denied.

---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

[18:23:51] [INF] [15] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Watching directory /data/media/tv

[18:23:51] [INF] [9] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Watching directory /data/media/movies

Listing the permissions/owners of all folders in folder structure in question it looks like this:

Code:
ls -ld /volume1 /volume1/video /volume1/video/movies /volume1/video/tv-shows

drwxrwxrwx 1 Adm1n admin 224 Nov 26 18:59 /volume1

drwxrwxrwx 1 Adm1n admin 104 Nov 28 18:19 /volume1/video

drwxrwxrwx 1 Adm1n admin 190 Nov 28 18:19 /volume1/video/movies

drwxrwxrwx 1 Adm1n admin 348 Nov 28 16:44 /volume1/video/tv-shows

I have looked through loads of guides and forum posts, but I haven't seen anything that explains this.
Any ideas? Any more information I can provide?