Auto Scanning of Newly Added Media

[Conroy 0]

Hi guys,

I'm finding that when new media is added, it's not automatically being discovered, this was working at the beginning after server setup etc, but the last few days I've been having to manually start as can, even waited 4 odd hours to see if it would find the new files.

I've attached my recent log here and I do see there is some error popping up just no idea what the issue is
Can you please help :)

Best,
Conroy

embyserver.txt

[GrimReaper 4740]

Where is your media stored? Is that a NAS? 

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2025-04-24 00:14:02.837 Error LibraryMonitor: Error in Directory watcher for: \\conroymedia\media\movies *** Error Report *** Version: 4.8.11.0 Command line: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll -noautorunwebapp Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045 Framework: .NET 6.0.36 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: C:/Users/theco/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 8 Data path: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata Application path: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (64): The specified network name is no longer available. Source: TargetSite: No Stack Trace Available 2025-04-24 00:14:02.837 Info LibraryMonitor: Stopping directory watching for path \\conroymedia\media\series 2025-04-24 00:14:02.837 Info LibraryMonitor: Stopping directory watching for path \\conroymedia\media\movies 2025-04-24 00:14:02.837 Info LibraryMonitor: Stopping directory watching for path \\conroymedia\media\series 2025-04-24 00:14:02.837 Info LibraryMonitor: Stopping directory watching for path \\conroymedia\media\movies

 

[Conroy 0]

50 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Where is your media stored? Is that a NAS? 

 

Hi Grim,

Yea! my NAS box, a Netgear.

[GrimReaper 4740]

As visible from your log snippet above, Emby is not being able to access that network path:

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2025-04-24 00:14:02.837 Error LibraryMonitor: Error in Directory watcher for: \\conroymedia\media\movies

*** Error Report ***

The specified network name is no longer available

Have you changed its name recently? Can you access it from Windows? What about accessing it by IP?

You can also mount that network storage as local drive - though pay attention not to start Emby server prior drive being mounted on system restart/reboot. 

[Conroy 0]

35 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

As visible from your log snippet above, Emby is not being able to access that network path:

Have you changed its name recently? Can you access it from Windows? What about accessing it by IP?

You can also mount that network storage as local drive - though pay attention not to start Emby server prior drive being mounted on system restart/reboot. 

Hi Grim thanks for your reply.
So my other apps like overseer, plex(ew), radarr etc, can all access it.

I can access the nas using my ip or ddns.
And manual scans work fine.

The name if it has been the same for around 8 years or so, never been changed since I set it up.

One thing I will say is usually the C in Conroy is capitalised, wonder if it could be that?

[Conroy 0]

Just a note - I re-added the directories with the Capital C, grabbed media and let it do it's thing and it's noticed the file really quickly.
I'll see how this goes and keep an eye on and reply back with findings!

 

I've also attached my new log for you to look at

 

Appreciate your help.

embyserver.txt

[GrimReaper 4740]

It appears RTM is picking up your items:

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2025-04-24 14:59:43.641 Info LibraryMonitor: Locked (2025) (\\conroymedia\media\movies\Locked (2025)) will be refreshed. 2025-04-24 14:59:43.731 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"\\conroymedia\media\movies\Locked (2025)\Locked 2025 WEBRip-1080p.mkv" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data 2025-04-24 14:59:44.408 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 0 - Succeeded 2025-04-24 14:59:44.422 Info TheMovieDb: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Locked 2025-04-24 14:59:44.424 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=x_secret2_x&query=Locked&language=en-GB&include_adult=true&year=2025 2025-04-24 14:59:44.555 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/1083968?api_key=x_secret2_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-GB&include_image_language=en-GB,null 2025-04-24 14:59:44.615 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=x_secret3_x&i=tt26671996&plot=short&r=json 2025-04-24 14:59:44.734 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=movie&q=tt26671996&remote_id=tt26671996 2025-04-24 14:59:45.135 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/movies/344066/extended?meta=translations 2025-04-24 14:59:45.464 Info HttpClient: GET https://webservice.fanart.tv/v3/movies/1083968?api_key=x_secret4_x&client_key=4b3ec58c3061a7483ce1b3df8d53f237 2025-04-24 14:59:45.611 Info HttpClient: GET https://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/movies/1083968/hdmovielogo/locked-67c9b3fa7acfc.png 2025-04-24 14:59:46.205 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/1083968?api_key=x_secret2_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers 2025-04-24 14:59:46.246 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/hhkiqXpfpufwxVrdSftzeKIANl3.jpg 2025-04-24 14:59:46.637 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/ewDxmREWXzgdi7IPndTvqEpTglF.jpg 2025-04-24 14:59:46.745 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/r4X2xRrWleVgx0kahP27xRmm3ia.jpg 2025-04-24 14:59:46.822 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/wMHCs1NkNeAmEdmCgTri26gzyua.jpg 2025-04-24 14:59:46.921 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/wzROc903oP94u1vDoVT8m02fqZy.jpg 2025-04-24 14:59:46.984 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/dPLX5bV0AC5ji1E2FwKrbYEEbTF.jpg 2025-04-24 14:59:47.226 Info QuickImageSeriesExtractor: ProcessRun 'quick-extract-imageseries' Execute: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffmpeg.exe -f matroska -threads 1 -skip_interval 10 -copyts -i file:"\\conroymedia\media\movies\Locked (2025)\Locked 2025 WEBRip-1080p.mkv" -an -sn -vf "scale=w=320:h=116" -vsync cfr -r 0.1 -f image2 "C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\cache\temp\ffee0cf0be7f4ba89480d83e7522ef77\img_%05d.jpg" 2025-04-24 15:00:22.293 Info QuickImageSeriesExtractor: ProcessRun 'quick-extract-imageseries' Process exited with code 0 - Succeeded

You can observe how it behaves going forward and advise if it start failing again. 

As a sidenote, file:

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\\conroymedia\media\movies\Made in Britain (1982)\Made in Britain 1982 Bluray-1080p.mkv

is throwing a lot of timing errors, you might want to remove that file, scan media library, put it back, scan again, see how does that compare? 

@Lukewhat does this error relate to:

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2025-04-24 14:54:26.811 Error FileSystem: Error determining LastAccessTimeUtc for \\conroymedia\media\movies\Made in Britain (1982)\Made in Britain 1982 Bluray-1080p.mkv *** Error Report *** Version: 4.8.11.0 Command line: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll -noautorunwebapp Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045 Framework: .NET 6.0.36 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: C:/Users/theco/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 8 Data path: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata Application path: C:\Users\theco\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Not a valid Win32 FileTime. (Parameter 'fileTime') at System.DateTime.FromFileTimeUtc(Int64 fileTime) at Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.ManagedFileSystem.GetLastWriteTimeUtc(FileSystemInfo info) Source: System.Private.CoreLib TargetSite: System.DateTime FromFileTimeUtc(Int64)

? 

[Conroy 0]

21 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

It appears RTM is picking up your items:

You can observe how it behaves going forward and advise if it start failing again. 

As a sidenote, file:

is throwing a lot of timing errors, you might want to remove that file, scan media library, put it back, scan again, see how does that compare? 

@Lukewhat does this error relate to:

? 

So far so good, I've removed that file also.
I've not done a system restart yet, but I've restarted Emby multiple times due to changes plugins etc, and it's picked up everything new from last night and this morning, so appears to be working now.

Will keep eyes on here for updates on the stuff you asked of the other forum member
Ty again

[Luke 42078]

On 4/24/2025 at 10:21 AM, GrimReaper said:

It appears RTM is picking up your items:

You can observe how it behaves going forward and advise if it start failing again. 

As a sidenote, file:

is throwing a lot of timing errors, you might want to remove that file, scan media library, put it back, scan again, see how does that compare? 

@Lukewhat does this error relate to:

? 

It means the timestamp of the file is something that windows doesn't support. You see it sometimes with network shares on a linux machine or nas. The server will just use the current time as the date added when this happens.