media folder not scanning - fixed

[wizerwoo]

I've had a nightmare with jellyfin not scanning the files in my "tvshows" folder. "Movies" worked perfectly, but no joy with tvshows.  I tried everything I could find online (permissions, ensuring the data structure is correct, even adding the tmdbid to every show) to no effect.

I eventually created a couple of new tvshow directories, put a show in each and found they scanned perfectly.  The only difference with the directory that failed to scan (apart from the fact it had ~30 shows in it), was that I'd put a symbolic link in it.  I removed this and BOOM!!  Problem solved.

I'm putting this here for anyone that is pulling their hair out & unable to find a fix.  This is the 3rd time over the years that I've tried Jellyfin.  The first time I've had the time and stubborness to get it working - and it was so worth it.  Currently streaming from my home server over a vpn while at work & it's smooth as butter.


FYI - I'm on coreelec with Jellyfin running in docker.

If this is already known, then I apologise for the post, I couldn't find mention of it anywhere.

Have a great day

[JonathanPi]

Thanks for the tip.
I have the same problem: Movie-folder recognised and scanned, but Series-folder, although recognised, not scanned. In the logs is

Code:

[WRN] Library folder "/mnt/Films/0 - Series" is inaccessible or empty,

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Both folders are on the same USB-drive (connected to a Raspberry Pi as a server). They have the same rights (I did give Jellyfin recursively read-write permissions)/).
I removed and added the library, restarted Jellyfin and the Raspberry a lot of times between trying settings.
I use Fedora Bluefin and didn't use symbolic links that I know, but I wil look for non-regular file-types. I'll report back if I found such thing.

EDIT:
It was my mistake! In fixing different problems, I copied my movie drive to another drive. Somehow I made the folder for series, but forgot to copy the content :-).
So everything works: Jellyfin didn't see the series because there weren't any there.
(I would delete this comment of me, but I don't think I can?)