July 20, 20196 yr Hi, I swapped out my parity drive a couple of days ago and today I noticed all my files from one particular share have disappeared... although all other shares are fine. The share with the missing files contains lots of TV series and some movies which Plex can still see and play just fine. All the missing files in the share are still all available when viewing the individual disks and I've checked the share setting and the global share settings and everything looks ok (not that I really know what looks ok). When I view the share via the 'View' icon I can see 4 root folders but everything after that is missing. Anyone able to help? EDIT: I think I've somehow managed to overwrite the original share (or confuse Unraid) by adding a folder with the same name as the share that's now not working to another disk (No.8 in this case). I've renamed the folder I added but the share still doesn't show anything. mediaserver-diagnostics-20190720-1857.zip Edited July 20, 20196 yr by jaminben (SOLVED)
July 20, 20196 yr Author I think I fixed it... it does appear that when I created a folder called 'MediaFiles' using Krusader in the root of one of my other disks which is the name of my share it stopped the share from working... D'oh! And because I've been trying to fix it all day I'd changed other things which compounded the issue but hopefully once I've transferred all the data back out of that manually 'Named Folder' it'll work as normal.
July 21, 20196 yr Community Expert There is something missing from your steps to fix it. A Share is simply the amalgamation of the top level folders with that name on all drives so manually creating such a folder would not break things. What COULD break things is creating a folder where the name is spelt the same but the case is not. This is because Linux uses a case sensitive file system but the share names exposed by Samba are not. In the case of there being folders on the disks that are spelt the same but have different case Samba will end up choosing one of them and ignoring the other.
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