So I’ve recently received my ZimaCube and have been trying to migrate my Plex Media Server from my Windows PC to the ZimaCube.
I have started transferring my Movie and TV folders to a RAID 5 setup on the ZimaCube. I have also installed the Plex app. I’ve gotten as far as setting up the ZimaCube as a new server, and adding my volumes for my TV and Movie folders, so I can add those libraries to Plex. For some reason only my TV shows are showing up in Plex. Even though I have the Movies folders mapped in the same way, and the movie files are working and viewable in the File viewer on the ZimaCube. No matter what I do Plex won’t see any of the movie files to generate the library, but the TV section is working just fine.
I gave that a go, but still no luck getting the movies to scan or show up in Plex. It does see the folder structure when I added /Data-Vault as the Host and /Media as the container but Plex still doesn’t find any movie files after scanning.
To clarify, you actually can’t add “/Data-Vault” - Host and “/Media” - Container you’ll get this error.
I had to modify it to “/media/Data-Vault” - Host and “/Media” container but again Plex still can’t view any of the movies files after scanning.
This is super frustrating as this path “/media/Data-Vault/TV” -Host “/TV” is working and recognized just fine by Plex. I don’t get what the issue is. But “/media/Data-Vault/Moves” -Host and “/Movies” - Container doesn’t work. Makes no sense
It looks like all your path settings are correct. I think the next priority should be to check the plex app settings. You can check in the plex terminal to make sure the folders are mapped correctly.
I’ll check out the Plex terminal next, how do I go about accessing this area. And what do I look for in the terminal to see if the folders are being mapped correctly?
I’m beginning to suspect it could be a permissions issue with the folders but I haven’t been able to get any help on how to go about checking the current permissions for those folders or how to change them.
What’s the resolution? I’m running into the exact same problem now where some of the libraries will be shown and some will not and all of them are set up the same way.
I get this issue, I haven’t found a permanent solution, but first make sure your mounting points match as mentioned above. Afterwards, console or SSH into your host and you have to change the files permissions, so I cd into my movies directory and run a “chmod -R 777” the entire directory, then plex will start cataloging the media.
Every time I add something, the permissions aren’t set from the parent folder like it should be. Here is an example of my file structure
the way I got around it was I clicked on the three dots for Plex settings and went into the terminal log screen and typed
“id $user”
And then entered what that command spit out under the PGID/PUID in the Plex container settings and the two libraries that were my tests libraries/contents were instantly recognized by the Plex
