2024-03-09, 07:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-11-02, 04:41 AM by galactic_whaler. Edited 2 times in total.)
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.)
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.)