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Media not showing up from symlinks - galactic_whaler - 2024-03-09
Hey everyone. I'm brand new to using Jellyfin. I don't even have my actual server built and am just testing it out on my PC.
When I did my first test of Jellyfin to see how long it would take to get set up, it worked so smoothly with how I wanted to do it. I have most of my media files actually stored at ~/Videos/Movies/ and I wanted to use soft links to populate my actual Jellyfin library. I tried that out, I think I just dragged ~/Videos/Movies/* straight to the library directory and it showed up all of the movies. I even included some TV shows that weren't named quite according to the convention and they showed up, although I had to manually identify them. I don't remember changing any permisions for any of this and I think the library folder was just in my ~/home/username directory.
Now that I'm trying to set it all up again, I'm having issues trying to replicate that. I have dragged the contents of ~/Videos/Movies over to create symlinks and the only one that shows up in the library is the single movie that is not in a sub directory (If it's not clear, I mean that ~/Videos/Movies/working-movie.mkv is showing up but not ~/Videos/Movies/Example Title/not-working.mkv). I've checked permissions, I even changed ownership of the specific movie folder to the jellyfin user. Still nothing. If create a link from the mkv to the library folder, it works, but I don't think this is a practical solution for TV shows.
Any advice/troubleshooting to help fix this and get my library working with soft links would be very appreciated.
I installed via dnf on Fedora 39, it's version 10.8.13-1
Edit: The problem was that I was actually only doing symlinks on my desktop to my NAS, changing mount point names on the server got it working. (Basically meaning, I was incorrectly making symlinks such that they were only effecting my desktop, the server didn't see anything new.)
RE: Media not showing up from symlinks - TheDreadPirate - 2024-03-20
When you say you checked permissions, where did you do that? Using symlinks does not circumvent permissions so you would need to ensure Jellyfin has sufficient permissions both to access the symlink and at the actual destination. For the entirety of both pathes.