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Posted (edited)

Hi,

I mounted an external storage as native G: drive in my windows PC. The drive doesn't show up in Emby library path, I try to enter the path manually, and it says the directory could not be found. Below is the screenshot. It's showing up in both Plex and Jellyfin server without problem. Wonder What is the issue here ?

Thanks,

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Edited by pett67
typo
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Hello pett67,

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Emby Team

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Hi, are you sure your G drive was connected at the time? Can you also try typing in a subfolder underneath G, for example G:\Movies

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Yes, G drive is connected, have also tried typing in a subfolder underneath G, showing the same error

brothom
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17 minutes ago, pett67 said:

Yes, G drive is connected, have also tried typing in a subfolder underneath G, showing the same error

I don't want to be "that guy" but I'm pretty sure G:\ isn't reachable. 

It could be it's disconnected: can you check if you can directly access the drive with that drive letter?

Your system has no permission: depending on your OS, drives can be set to use specific permissions. The drive exists, but EmbyServer isn't permitted to list/view it's contents.

Another thing could be that Emby hasn't discovered the drive somehow, maybe a restart can fix this?

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Hey,

Yes, I can see and double click to enter the G drive under 'This PC'. My system is Windows 11, The remote is mounted using Rclone

As mentioned, Both Plex and Jellyfin can see and add this drive as library path without problem. Additionally, Radarr and Sonarr can also select this drive as root folder, so do my download clients

It seems to be a problem exclusive to Emby so far

Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, pett67 said:

Hey @brothom

Yes, I can see and double click to enter the G drive under 'This PC'. My system is Windows 11, The remote is mounted using Rclone

As mentioned, Both Plex and Jellyfin can see and add this drive as library path without problem. Additionally, Radarr and Sonarr can also select this drive as root folder, so do my download clients

It seems to be a problem exclusive to Emby so far

 

Edited by pett67
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2 hours ago, pett67 said:

Yes, G drive is connected, have also tried typing in a subfolder underneath G, showing the same error

What subfolder did you try?

Neminem
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How did you install Emby.

Native installer or as a service?

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On 1/21/2026 at 10:58 PM, Luke said:

What subfolder did you try?

I have a subfolder under G drive called test, so the path I enter is G:\test

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On 1/21/2026 at 11:12 PM, Neminem said:

How did you install Emby.

Native installer or as a service?

I download the installer from Emby website

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