Symlink for Plex Media folder not working

[commanderbloom]

I created a symlink using the following on a system running Unraid 6.2.4 and the Plex docker from linuxserver repo on plex pass update channel.

ln -s '/mnt/user/plexfiles/Plex Data/Media/' '/mnt/user/docker/apps/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/'

and then running the following so that permissions match the original ones

chown -R nobody:users '/mnt/cache/docker/apps/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/'

 

It is setup just fine, when I go to the directory on cache folder I see the contents of the other folder. However, once I go into plex and try to import movies, the metadata does not load, sort of. It will fetch it, but it does not set it. If I edit the movie manually I can set the poster and background from, what I believe, is a selection of images it pulled. It does not pull any of the cast, descriptions, directors, etc.

 

I even thought at one point that maybe it could be issue without symlink so I removed it and tried to refresh item and everything loaded instantly as it should! So yeah, this is driving me nuts, what am I doing wrong? It's as if plex cannot access the directory via the symlink or something. I had this setup before but I recently had to reinstall everything and start from scratch and I cannot remember how I had this working.

[saarg]

Why are you linking your media folder with plexs config folder? There is absolutely no reason to do it.

Your config goes in one volume and the media in another volume.

Post a screenshot of you Plex template please.

[commanderbloom]

So I believe you misread/it was unclear, but what I was trying to do is have it so that my thumbnail indexes were not on my SSD because it isn't so large and with a lot of content it quickly would fill up. Anyhow, you reminded me that using a symlink is what I had originally tried before realizing I could just use the template in Unraid to map the path, and so that's what I did just now and it worked, so my issues is resolved, thank you for sparking that memory.

[shinexx]

On 12/28/2016 at 7:17 PM, commanderbloom said:

So I believe you misread/it was unclear, but what I was trying to do is have it so that my thumbnail indexes were not on my SSD because it isn't so large and with a lot of content it quickly would fill up. Anyhow, you reminded me that using a symlink is what I had originally tried before realizing I could just use the template in Unraid to map the path, and so that's what I did just now and it worked, so my issues is resolved, thank you for sparking that memory.

 

Did you add another host path in your docker template? maybe something like /config/media -> /mnt/ssd-cache-drive/Media?