I configured plex server in my Arch Linux. While setting the media folder the folder which contains a symbolic link content is not listing in media server.
I added the current user to the plex group.
Please let us know anyone getting the same issue
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I have the same problem. I do not like hardlinks, and PLEX does not seem to play nice with symlinks. Fortunately, thanks to this reddit comment, I found that symlinking relatively to the current directory works for PLEX. This means that the symlink must not be absolute, but relative to the folder PLEX scans.
A link which points to /mnt/RAID1/PLEX/Movies/something must become ../Movies/something.
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I was wrong. After fiddling with symlinks, I realized my mistake. Target folders/files need reading permissions. You have to chmod -R +r SOURCE_FOLDER. Now the symbolic links work as intended.
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As far as I can tell, Plex doesn't recognize symbolic links. I've tried symlinks to both, files and folders, to no avail. This discussion from 2013–2015 in a plex forum suggest to symlink directories, but it didn't work for me.
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