TV shows rescanning.

[Trevor68 70]

so Emby updated the other day (not beta full version). everything seemed fine, then yesterday I noticed maybe 80% of my shows missing, movies were fine 

2.5 hours to rescan them all then once again I thought everything was fine. Nope, woke up this morning to the same shows missing again. so far I'm 3 hours into another rescan. 

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[Luke 42077]

Hi, after the scan completes, does it happen again after that?

[Trevor68 70]

well twice so far, will see how it goes today. 

[Luke 42077]

If it continues then try removing the EpMetaRefresh plugin and see how things compare after that.

[Trevor68 70]

Mmm it was fine for a few days now bam 80% of my shows are missing, but with a new twist, it will NOT re add them. 

A library scan runs fine for about 12 seconds, completes, doesn't add anything. 

[Trevor68 70]

On 08/10/2025 at 09:34, Luke said:

If it continues then try removing the EpMetaRefresh plugin and see how things compare after that.

I removed the plugin, didn't help, every day or two it loses the shows and then does another 3 hour rescan. 

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[Luke 42077]

15 minutes ago, Trevor68 said:

I removed the plugin, didn't help, every day or two it loses the shows and then does another 3 hour rescan. 

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Is this folder no longer there? 

2025-10-14 08:51:41.763 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Series, Name: Beckham, Path: \\TRUENAS\data-storage\emby\television\Beckham (2023), Id: 2141878

Or rather, was it no longer there at that time?

[Trevor68 70]

the folders and files never change, only the NFO is getting modified. 

 

[Trevor68 70]

Mmm, scanning the library has become super unreliable, it is either a 12 second scan that adds nothing, or if you try again nearly everything vanishes and takes 3 hours to add back again.

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[Trevor68 70]

I have tried the new library idea, didn't work. 

[Trevor68 70]

looks like a case of curiosity killed the cat this morning. I have been wondering why only one (television) of my three libraries is afflicted. Now I know. 

I didn't want another 3 hour rescan after i added 2 movies this morning, so decided to do a libary scan of my movies library instead. 

Yup, now most of my movies are missing and it's shaping up around 2 hours to add them back again. 

Seems to be ANY library you start a manual scan on then becomes rubbish at scanning. 

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[Trevor68 70]

and here we are, chugging thru another 3 hour rescan. 

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[Trevor68 70]

and of course after every big rescan, I get this email. 

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(Note: This is an automated message.)

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number of failed API requests and has been automatically blocked.
Additionally, the IP making the requests (103.85.37.178/32) has been
temporarily blocked from further communication with our servers.

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[Trevor68 70]

seems to be a 12 hourly occurence now, library media scan runs for 12 seconds, 80% of all TV series kind of vanish (see screnshot), then a 3 hour library scan fix it, until rinse/repeat. 

 

[Trevor68 70]

ok on the third recreation of this library not only are all behaviors back to normal, but the scans are now correctly adding new media lickity split, at about 30 seconds. 

The only difference? I left this setting off, that was enabled before. 

 

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[byusinger84 1]

I have this same issue, I believe. I haven't changed anything with my setup or file/folder structure. All of a sudden, I see the same behavior as your screenshot above. Rescanning the TV library does not fix it. Recreating the TV library also did not work (something I really didn't want to do...). This started around October 7th when a user first reported it to me, though I can't tell if that's the day it started or the first day someone let me know. Here's my screenshot so you can see the behavior. If this needs to be a separate issue, let me know and I'll open a new thread. 

The files themselves all work fine. 

 

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Edited October 21, 2025 by byusinger84

[Trevor68 70]

Have you checked the setting I mentioned? what worked for me was recreating the library with it turned off. 

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[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, Trevor68 said:

Have you checked the setting I mentioned? what worked for me was recreating the library with it turned off. 

Prefer embedded titles over file names

Apologies for the disruption. I don’t think this option matters. I think it’s more the recreation of the library that resolved it for you.

[byusinger84 1]

In my case, this did not resolve the issue. @Lukedo you want me to start a new post/thread? 

[Trevor68 70]

24 minutes ago, Luke said:

Apologies for the disruption. I don’t think this option matters. I think it’s more the recreation of the library that resolved it for you.

While that is possible it seems odd that only worked on the third try. 

[Trevor68 70]

Funny story, I ran a manual scan on my movies library today and bam, same problem. 

 

 

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[byusinger84 1]

Anything else I can try? Other logs I can give? 

[Luke 42077]

On 10/23/2025 at 4:58 AM, Trevor68 said:

Funny story, I ran a manual scan on my movies library today and bam, same problem. 

 

 

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Hi, try removing the movies library from Emby library setup and then adding it back.

[byusinger84 1]

Hi Luke. I'm going to start my own thread, I think, but just for context...I did do this with my TV library and it ended up breaking again after the initial scan. 

[Trevor68 70]

And 80% of my shows just plain missing again today. 

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