Plex on Ubuntu

Dirk Diggler · 21 May 2014 at 21:38

I've setup Plex on Ubuntu 14.04. It's all worked fine, but I've ran into a problem... Any new media that I add isn't showing up in any of the Apps that I use Plex with. I've tried chmod and chown but it doesn't seem to be a permissions problem?

korgtronix · 21 May 2014 at 21:52

String said:
I've setup Plex on Ubuntu 14.04. It's all worked fine, but I've ran into a problem... Any new media that I add isn't showing up in any of the Apps that I use Plex with. I've tried chmod and chown but it doesn't seem to be a permissions problem?

Have you set it to automatically refresh the data in its libraries? Its in the settings area, you can set it to refresh every 5 mins and up I believe but I think by default its manual

memyselfandi · 21 May 2014 at 22:06

Yes, does the new media show up in the web interface for the Plex server?

Dirk Diggler · 21 May 2014 at 22:08

Library is set to update automatically, hourly.

No, I can't see the new media on the web interface either.

memyselfandi · 21 May 2014 at 22:41

Then it's not picking up the media in it's scans.

Make sure that the directories in question are actually included in the Plex sections and that all the expected naming conventions have been followed. The other thing you can get rarely is if it has detected the new thing as something it already has it'll merge the entries together.

You can run manual command line scans in Plex as well (this is on OSX so YMMV on Ubuntu so experiment) by firstly running the Plex scanner executable with a --list option to get a list of section numbers and then running it again with --scan --deep --refresh --section X where X is the section number from the first command.

You might want to touch the things which you are scanning for first so it looks for changes when the scanning runs as the file and directory time stamps have changed (do the touch on the directory as well as the files).

Dirk Diggler · 21 May 2014 at 22:59

memyselfandi said:
Then it's not picking up the media in it's scans.

Make sure that the directories in question are actually included in the Plex sections and that all the expected naming conventions have been followed. The other thing you can get rarely is if it has detected the new thing as something it already has it'll merge the entries together.

You can run manual command line scans in Plex as well (this is on OSX so YMMV on Ubuntu so experiment) by firstly running the Plex scanner executable with a --list option to get a list of section numbers and then running it again with --scan --deep --refresh --section X where X is the section number from the first command.

You might want to touch the things which you are scanning for first so it looks for changes when the scanning runs as the file and directory time stamps have changed (do the touch on the directory as well as the files).

Nothing working so far. Who should own the folders and files? Root, Plex or user? Also, folders should be 755 and files should be 644, right?