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After some trial and error it seems I finally figured it out, I can use my script to create the merged folder and then open the console on the running privileged Ubooquity Docker container and enter the following line: apk update && apk add --upgrade cifs-utils && mkdir /comics/merged && mount -t cifs //192.168.0.23/ubooquity/merged /comics/merged -o user=XXX,password=XXX And now the merged folder is available at /comics/merged with the symlinks working perfectly.

To further clarify the script does exactly what I wanted actually. For example if DIR1 has /mnt/user/ubooquity/comics/publishers/PublisherA/SeriesA and DIR2 has /mnt/user/backups/rsync/ubooquity/comics/publishers/PublisherA/SeriesB then MERGEDDIR will display both SeriesA and SeriesB in it's PublisherA folder. And whenever big changes are made to either DIR1 or DIR2 or a new series folder is added I can just have the script run again to update all symlinks. The only problem now is that the symlinks don't show up in Ubooquity. I've also just tried it with Plex and it recognizes the symlinks as generic files, not directories. So in case there is no way to have Docker read symlinks I guess my backup plan could be to run Ubooquity in a VM that accesses the merged directory of symlinks over SMB, which would be a less elegant and efficient solution than I had hoped.

I know what you mean but then it would still just show up as 2 different folders in Ubooquity called "books" and "unsynced_books_path" with the same folder structure for publisher but different series. I've been experimenting with symlinks, I made a script that loops through both dirs and creates symlinks for each series in each publisher folder so i could mount that merged folder in Ubooquity, and while it does work and creates a working directory when browsed in SMB or in MC when I mount it as a container path it doesn't show the symlinks and only empty publisher dirs in Ubooquity. I'll include the script in case it's because of an error in that, especially since it's my first time using Bash or any non-.NET language even so i'm not sure if this is the most effective script. #!/bin/bash DIR1="/mnt/user/ubooquity/comics/publishers/" DIR2="/mnt/user/backups/rsync/ubooquity/comics/publishers/" MERGEDDIR="/mnt/user/ubooquity/merged/" #UNLINK PREVIOUS find "$MERGEDDIR" -type l -exec unlink {} \; #DIR1 for PublisherDir1 in "$DIR1"*; do if [ -d "$PublisherDir1" ]; then PublisherName1=$(basename -- "$PublisherDir1") for SeriesDir1 in "$PublisherDir1/"*; do if [ -d "$SeriesDir1" ]; then SeriesName1=$(basename -- "$SeriesDir1") [ ! -d "$MERGEDDIR$PublisherName1" ] && mkdir "$MERGEDDIR$PublisherName1" ln -s "$SeriesDir1" "$MERGEDDIR$PublisherName1/$SeriesName1" fi done fi done #DIR2 for PublisherDir2 in "$DIR2"*; do if [ -d "$PublisherDir2" ]; then PublisherName2=$(basename -- "$PublisherDir2") for SeriesDir2 in "$PublisherDir2/"*; do if [ -d "$SeriesDir2" ]; then SeriesName2=$(basename -- "$SeriesDir2") [ ! -d "$MERGEDDIR$PublisherName1" ] && mkdir "$MERGEDDIR$PublisherName2" ln -s "$SeriesDir2" "$MERGEDDIR$PublisherName2/$SeriesName2" fi done fi done

No, both paths get updated as the application decides where each file goes by recognizing existing series folders to add to, but I can probably just alter my application to use SFTP from SSH.NET instead of SMB so it can can write directly to the disks.

I guess that would work but then the problem with that would be when I add more books or comics, that's normally automatically handled over SMB by a VB.NET application i wrote in which case i can't control to which disk it goes unless I'm missing something and you can access the disks over SMB too.

Thank you for your reply, but unfortunately that wouldn't help much, basically the 2 paths I'm trying to show up as one have the same directory structure with publisher folders but different files. It's because one gets backed up to a remote location and the other doesn't, but rather than have both paths show up as different libraries/folders in Ubooquity it would be great if it could show up as one path.

Hello, Because of the way Ubooquity works it would be really helpful if I could have the contents of 2 different host paths show up as one container path in the Ubooquity Docker container. For example: Host path 1: /mnt/user/x Host path 2: /mnt/user/y Show up as /z for the Ubooquity Docker container. I've tried adding both and pointing them to the same container path but that just gives an error when trying to start the container. The container path would be fine as Read Only and both host paths have some duplicate directories but never duplicate files if that matters. I'm assuming there's probably a command to either mount it that way for the container as it starts or create a directory in Unraid that shows the contents of those 2 directories but I'm not very familiar with Docker or Linux filesystems. Does anyone have any ideas?