Recently my top share folder MEDIA, and some of the sub folders of media are showing up on my cache drive empty. I run the mover and they go away for a while and then return again.

Behavior I am used to is only would see if there was something waiting for the mover to copy to the array, and then it would only be the MEDIA folder and the pertinent subfolder containing the file(s). An AI deep dive search says this could be expected behavior do to how fuse works, but I figured if this was the case, it would have shown up long ago. I have made no configuration changes recently other than changing monthly parity check date, and i have also recently added and been playing with a new WIN11 VM, which isn't running currently. I am not using the mover tuning plugin. Sync files in windows is turned off. i have rebooted the server and the window computer twice each, no change.

Is this expected behavior now with ver.7 or do I have something goofy goin on?

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1 hour ago, wirenut said:

some of the sub folders of media are showing up on my cache drive empty.

How are you examining the folders to determine they are empty?

cache is network mapped to drive x: from my windows computer. Opening each from there they show no files. hidden files is enable in windows.

Also, doing a right click properties in windows show this:

I always recommend only sharing user shares, and not sharing disks or pools.

Can you browse to cache using the built-in Unraid File Manager and check the folders that way?

Also, SMB/Windows is not case-sensitive. If you have a folder with the same name except for upper/lower case, you would only see one of them in Windows.

only one folder named MEDIA. Been that way since I originally set up unraid in 2012.

using unraid file manager shows same result. folders there, but empty. from parent directory:

16 hours ago, wirenut said:

I run the mover and they go away for a while and then return again.

That suggests a container or similar is creating them, since the share is set to cache yes, they will be created on the pool.

One possibility is that a temporary file is being created in the Share. Then, the process that creates it deletes the file when it is finished with it. (That's what well-behaved programs are suppose to do... 😉)

6 hours ago, JorgeB said:

That suggests a container or similar is creating them

This would be a recent change in behavior, but agree could be possible since my regular dockers are set to auto update. Also, still getting my head around how "pools" work

3 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

(That's what well-behaved programs are suppose to do... 😉)

If this turns out to be the case @Frank1940 , I will definitely share what the culprit program that is behaving responsibly is. 😊

This doesn't seem to be causing any other issues right now other than I have to see empty folders on the cache drive when I look. UGH!

For now I guess that I'll just have to accept this as expected behavior. I'll keep an eye on things and either get used to it, or report back again if something erroneous comes up.

Thanks for the time and input!

Well just wanted to update that I figured out what is causing my issue. It is Bazarr docker container. Do not know yet what it is doing to cause this behavior.