mastrmind11 717 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Yes, the subfolders for new folders in both /Movies and /Tv Shows do not have the same permissions as /Movies or /Tv Shows. For whatever reason though all the tv shows in the new sub folders are being populated yet movies are not. thus the problem, and why i asked. figure out a) why this is happening, and/or set up the proper permissions either via the app you're using to find this media or via ACL settings on the os. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydeaux24 0 Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 thus the problem, and why i asked. figure out a) why this is happening, and/or set up the proper permissions either via the app you're using to find this media or via ACL settings on the os. I'd like to go with option A. It just doesn't make sense to me why tv shows are populating and movies are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 I'd like to go with option A. It just doesn't make sense to me why tv shows are populating and movies are not. ok so as a temp fix just do a chown -R at the root of your movies and set the owner to whatever your tv shows are. see if they show up in emby then. assuming that fixes the problem, whatever app you're using to get the tv shows needs to be configured to set the permissions upon download/move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydeaux24 0 Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 ok so as a temp fix just do a chown -R at the root of your movies and set the owner to whatever your tv shows are. see if they show up in emby then. assuming that fixes the problem, whatever app you're using to get the tv shows needs to be configured to set the permissions upon download/move. That's what I've been doing as a patch but it STILL doesn't answer the question. Why should I have to if tv shows folder has the EXACT same ownership and permissions but is being discovered just fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 That's what I've been doing as a patch but it STILL doesn't answer the question. Why should I have to if tv shows folder has the EXACT same ownership and permissions but is being discovered just fine? because emby also cares what permissions individual files have. files don't automatically inherit root folder permissions just because they're in the folder. you have to explicitly tell them to if that's what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydeaux24 0 Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 because emby also cares what permissions individual files have. files don't automatically inherit root folder permissions just because they're in the folder. you have to explicitly tell them to if that's what you want. But the question still remains. Why is it populating tv shows and not movies? Both sub folders have the EXACT same permissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-Droid 657 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 But the question still remains. Why is it populating tv shows and not movies? Both sub folders have the EXACT same permissions. Are the TV shows and movies coming from the same source? Are they owned by the same user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 again, it has nothing to do w/ folder permissions. the folder can be emby:emby but if the files in that folder are owned by a user or group that emby doesn't have access to, they won't be viewable. the files themselves need to have proper permissions. as I said earlier, whatever is putting the files in the folders needs to be configured to change the files to proper permissions, or, you can look into ACLs (also mentioned earlier). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mpg Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Ok I cant also seem to get and external drive recognized. The path is /media/oboa/moviestorage/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest I should add im using.. Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Linux Mint 19 Xfce 64 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MPG Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 1 hour ago, mastrmind11 said: what? I have an external drive with movie files, when selecting the folder in EMBY to choose from library files i get "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 5 minutes ago, Guest MPG said: I have an external drive with movie files, when selecting the folder in EMBY to choose from library files i get "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again." that means your permissions are wrong. search the forum and/or google specifically pertaining to external drives. once you've tried a tutorial or 2, come back here, start a new thread, tell us what you've tried and what you've found, and we can go from there. without sitting next to you at your computer, there's nothing that can be done with that little information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joevaen3 0 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 On 7/30/2019 at 5:20 AM, Luke said: Thanks for the feedback. Hi, I encountered the same question on ubuntu. My library folder in my mobile hdd has supreme authority but emby still can't find it, even can't find the mobile hdd. Do you have some solutions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37119 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 On 4/22/2021 at 6:21 AM, Joevaen3 said: Hi, I encountered the same question on ubuntu. My library folder in my mobile hdd has supreme authority but emby still can't find it, even can't find the mobile hdd. Do you have some solutions? Hi there, have you taken a look at our file permissions guide, to ensure emby server has access to the folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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