Emby Folder Permissions

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Hi everyone,

I’m glad to have joined the Zima community — I’ve been really impressed with ZimaOS so far.

I’m hoping someone can help me with an Emby configuration issue. I have a RAID 5 array set up as my main storage, and I’m trying to grant the Emby app permission to use the Auto-Organize feature so it can rename and move my TV shows into the appropriate folders.

Ideally, I was hoping for a way to assign read/write access when adding library folders within Emby itself, but it seems that functionality hasn’t been implemented yet.

Has anyone found a workaround or a recommended way to give Emby the necessary permissions?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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I suggest this is simply a folder-permission / volume-mapping issue.

Emby runs in Docker, so Auto-Organize can only rename/move files if the host folder is mounted with write access.

I suggest checking:
• In Emby app settings > Volumes, confirm your RAID folder is mapped and not read-only
• Ensure the target folder has write perms — e.g.
chmod -R 775 /DATA/Media/TV
chown -R 1000:1000 /DATA/Media/TV

If a quick test with chmod -R 777 works, that confirms it’s perms.

Please share:
• Your current volume mapping
• Folder path on ZimaOS
So we can suggest next steps.

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