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Hey mate! Thanks for the reply again. Rclone does work properly ; my poll interval is set to 5m so the changes show up in the rclone folder. It was just that Plex was unable to see the changes unless I did a manual scan. And I just set up mergerfs and it works! The changes get reflected in the mergerfs folder, even when it is added directly to the remote by the owner. The problem now is still Plex is not seeing it with partial scan, even though it is in mergerfs. I gather from your last reply that I might need to install the plex autoscan plugin to solve this. My only doubt is why even though the file appears in mergerfs, which is "local", it is not appearing in Plex when it should. By right, for local files you don't need plex autoscan, correct?

Sorry I think I may not have explained my situation properly. I've not been using mergerfs. And without mergerfs, the partial scan doesn't work correct? And now I'm intending to use mergerfs to solve this problem. However, I don't have write access to the drive. It's a shared drive and I only have read access. If the owner makes changes directly to the gdrive, like adding folders etc, will the changes be reflected in the mergerfs folder? So basically I'm not going to be having a local folder that uploads to the drive. I just want to use mergerfs for the updates if that makes sense. I wish to use your scripts except for the local folder part where it uploads to the drive. Will it still work or have I understood this wrongly?

Ok great! Yeah they work great so I guess I won't fix what's not broken. Thank you for the reply. So far I've just been using a simple rclone mount and pointing directly to it in Plex. This has the problem of having to do a full scan to get any changes done to the remote ; the partial scan in Plex settings doesn't work for a rclone remote mount right? Does mergerfs solve my problem, given that I only have read access to the remote gdrive and I won't/can't upload from local to gdrive? In other words, can I use mergerfs to have the benefit of automatic updates when they are done to the remote, and have it show up in Plex without having to do a full scan?

Hi mate @DZMM. Any thoughts on this?

Hi mate. I've read this post and taken a look at the github scripts as well. I've used most of your settings for my rclone mount settings on my seedbox. I'm only doing a read-only mount so I'm not using mergerfs etc. Do your mount settings affect the Plex library loading times when I go to the home page where there is Recommended, On Deck etc? --use-mmap \ --allow-non-empty \ --dir-cache-time 168h \ --timeout 1h \ --umask 002 \ --tpslimit 10 \ --tpslimit-burst 10 --poll-interval=1m \ --vfs-cache-mode writes \ --vfs-read-chunk-size 128M \ --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 512M \ --buffer-size 256M \ These are my settings. I've also read on rclone forums that buffer size should be lesser than vfs-read-chunk-size; in your settings it is twice as much but seems to work for me. Is this okay? I'm using these settings to play high bitrate files. Should I be using it for a mount which has lower bitrate files or is that overkill?