Won't scan Movie folder

[okdah 0]

when I add new movies to the folder and force a scan it does nothing but if I did the same for TV Shows it works and recognizes the new added show

 

[Luke 37028]

1 minute ago, okdah said:

when I add new movies to the folder and force a scan it does nothing but if I did the same for TV Shows it works and recognizes the new added show

 

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Thanks.

[Patricksp 2]

I too am having the same issue, when I am on my Home screen Movies, TVshows and Music and I do a scan on TV shows I can see that it goes from 0 to 100.  When I do this for Movies nothing happens, I don't see a Progress meter on Movies. 

This Also started when I did a backup of my server files. 

embyserver.txt

[Luke 37028]

34 minutes ago, Patricksp said:

I too am having the same issue, when I am on my Home screen Movies, TVshows and Music and I do a scan on TV shows I can see that it goes from 0 to 100.  When I do this for Movies nothing happens, I don't see a Progress meter on Movies. 

This Also started when I did a backup of my server files. 

embyserver.txt 11.2 MB · 0 downloads

Hi there, how many emby libraries have you created, and what folder paths did you add to each one?

[Patricksp 2]

5 Libraries 

Volume1/MyEmbyMedia (movies)

Volume1/Music

Volume1/Tv Shows

var/packages/embyserver/target/v... (this holds my Movie Collections and I really don't see a folder path even when I click edit)

Var/packages/embyserver/target/v...  (this is my Playlists for my music)

In case I don't explain myself properly I added a picture. 

 

[Patricksp 2]

It was a broken link of when I did a Backup of my Movies there was a file that was associated with the backup and not any of my Media. 

The way I found it was to look at the files the Date they were created, went to the end and found the file that didn't belong, made another folder and transferred the 1 file I thought didn't belong and now the Scan Library Files worked for movie. 

[Luke 37028]

3 hours ago, Patricksp said:

It was a broken link of when I did a Backup of my Movies there was a file that was associated with the backup and not any of my Media. 

The way I found it was to look at the files the Date they were created, went to the end and found the file that didn't belong, made another folder and transferred the 1 file I thought didn't belong and now the Scan Library Files worked for movie. 

Thanks for the feedback. Are you all set now?

[Patricksp 2]

12 hours ago, Luke said:

Thanks for the feedback. Are you all set now?

Yes, Everything is working now. 

[Luke 37028]

Thanks for the feedback.

[fuxoft 4]

SOLVED! (at least for me)

I had the exactly same problem (media mounted on Samba, TV shows scanning ok, Movies not scanning at all). And I found the reason!

The problem was that one of the movie subdirectories had a colon (":") in its name! This caused the rescan of the whole "Movies" directory to immediately end and not find any media. When I renamed the offending directory (removed the ":"), everything works correctly.

[Luke 37028]

That's interesting, thanks for the feedback.

[fuxoft 4]

I must add that this is an universal problem with with Samba / CIFS. The directory whose name contains ":" cannot be even browsed from my PC. See also here. However, Emby probably should attempt to quietly skip these files (or, even better, issue a warning) and scan the rest of the media directory.

Edited February 20, 2021 by fuxoft

[Luke 37028]

32 minutes ago, fuxoft said:

I must add that this is an universal problem with with Samba / CIFS. The directory whose name contains ":" cannot be even browsed from my PC. See also here. However, Emby probably should attempt to quietly skip these files (or, even better, issua a warning) and scan the rest of the media directory.

that's interesting, did not know that. Yes an ignore would be ideal but this is happening in the .net core runtime file access layer. We'll be updating to 5.0 in the near future and we'll see if that helps improve this.

[cgurcan 1]

I think I have the answer for not being scanned.

Please check security of the folder you are scanning. In my case  I had no permission to read the folder. (windows confused or something like that when I formated my  system disk)