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When I want to add a folder to PLEX I cannot find it.

I have 2 harddrives in my computer. Ubuntu 13 installed on the 120GB SSD and another 1TB normal harddrive which contains 1 Folder called 'Films'. In that folder there are many other folders with films in it.

When I add a Movie section from PLEX I can select the 1TB harddrive. So the drive is recognized. But afterwards I cannot select the folder 'Films' althoug it is there.

The filemanager (second icon from the top on menu bar) does show the folder.

Any clue how I can make sure PLEX recognizes this folder so I can select it?

Vincent Lafeber
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2 Answers2

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Here is my solution:

Remove the old installation of plex:

sudo apt-get remove plexmediaserver
sudo apt-get purge plexmediaserver
sudo rm -r plexmediaserver/

Download plex from the website

Go to Downloads folder

Install plex:

sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.7.22.511-4b5280f_amd64.deb

change user to you instead of plex:

sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver

Run once

http:// localhost:32400/web/index.html#!/dashboard

Stop:

sudo service plexmediaserver stop

add user to group:

sudo addgroup plex youruser

sudo addgroup youruser plex

start:

sudo service plexmediaserver start
Seth
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anonynous
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This because plex does not support sub folders. What id did was copy all my movies out of their sub folders and into a new folder. Try executing the following commands

mkdir ~/PlexMovies
find ~/Videos -name '*.mp4' -exec cp {} ~/PlexMovies \;

Now this assumes that all your videos are in the mp4 format. Execute this command for every type of video you have by replacing *.mp4 with any other movie type. Then have plex pull your movies from ~/PlexMovies

chad
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