SOLVED: Path could not be found.

[RuralAnemone]

Issue: trying to add a folder to a media library gives an error:

> The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again.

Solutions I've tried to no avail:

- restarting Jellyfin
- restarting my machine
- ensuring that /home/ruralanemone/Videos and /home/ruralanemone/Videos/movies/** have at least rwxr-xr-x permissions

I'm not entirely sure what else there is to do; Jellyfin has access to the files I'm trying to add to the library.
Am I doing something wrong?

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OS: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm 12.6 x86_64
Host: Latitude 5400
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-23-amd64
Jellyfin Version: 10.9.8 (from official Debian apt repo)

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and here's the directory listing:


0 - ruralanemone@reginald ~/Videos/movies
$ llr
drwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 4.0 KB Sat Jul 27 10:27:00 2024  ./
drwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 4.0 KB Sat Jul 27 10:24:51 2024 ├──  'monty python and the holy grail'/
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 770 MB Fri Jul 26 23:58:52 2024 │  └──  'monty python and the holy grail.mp4'*
drwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 4.0 KB Sat Jul 27 10:26:51 2024 ├──  'o brother where art thou'/
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 2.7 GB Thu Jul 25 18:13:25 2024 │  └──  'o brother where art thou.mkv'*
drwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 4.0 KB Sat Jul 27 10:25:38 2024 ├──  rango/
drwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 4.0 KB Thu Jul 25 09:15:05 2024 │  ├──  Subs/
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone  93 KB Thu Jul 25 09:15:06 2024 │  │  └── 󰨖 2_Eng.srt*
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone  92 KB Fri Jul 26 17:04:03 2024 │  ├── 󰨖 rango.en.srt*
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 2.1 GB Thu Jul 25 09:15:15 2024 │  └──  rango.mp4*
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone 4.1 GB Sat Jul 27 10:33:31 2024 ├──  wallace-and-gromit-collection.VNKlHbpJ.zip.part*
.rwxr-xr-x ruralanemone ruralanemone  0 B  Sat Jul 27 01:38:16 2024 └──  wallace-and-gromit-collection.zip*


[TheDreadPirate]

You should not be storing files that need to be shared with other users in your home directory. Sure the directories themselves have 755 permissions, but /home/ruralanemone also needs to be opened up. Which is something you should not do. Your home is a private directory due to ssh keys and other sensitive files being located there.

Relocate your media files out of your home to something like /media, which does not contain any sensitive information.

[RuralAnemone]

ah ok that makes a lot of sense
thank you so much (: