NAS326 After Plex Installed: Needs to add Local Movies\Music\Photos

Emerald Dragon
Emerald Dragon Posts: 120  Ally Member
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edited April 2020 in Personal Cloud Storage
OK! I am looking at adding Local Movies\Music\Photos into Plex Server after I installed it. I am not sure how to do it at this point in Plex to the locations of these files on the NAS. Did anyone that already has Plex Server up and running already got their local contents added? Please assist. Thanks in advance.

Should it be "\\NAS326\DirectoryNane"? Or ".\DirectoryNane"? or something else?

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  • Mijzelf
    Mijzelf Posts: 2,788  Guru Member
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    The local path on the NAS starts with /i-data/. If you enable the ssh server, you can use WinSCP to find the complete local path to your movie directories.

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  • SasaNoi
    SasaNoi Posts: 1
    edited May 2020
    Hi, I have tried before as you said and did not succeed. The error shown is file incompatibility. or it may be that you've done it the wrong way and therefore can't work on your device.
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  • Mijzelf
    Mijzelf Posts: 2,788  Guru Member
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    The local path on the NAS starts with /i-data/. If you enable the ssh server, you can use WinSCP to find the complete local path to your movie directories.
  • Emerald Dragon
    Emerald Dragon Posts: 120  Ally Member
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    edited April 2020
    Thanks @Mijzelf, I have enabled ssh. How do I go about doing WinSCP? I am not used to doing ssh at all. Kenda noob at it.

    EDIT: Never mind, I actually found the directory through Twonky Media Player. No needs to go through the trouble of finding it now.
  • Emerald Dragon
    Emerald Dragon Posts: 120  Ally Member
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    edited April 2020
    OK! Photos are showing up fine, But the music and movies are not showing up. weird! :(  
  • Emerald Dragon
    Emerald Dragon Posts: 120  Ally Member
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    OK, Now I am going nuts. It's shows up now after I did some reading and moving around the movies files. I guess the structure was not correctly done before, fixing it now.
  • Mijzelf
    Mijzelf Posts: 2,788  Guru Member
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    One thing you might need to know is that file- and directory names in Linux are case sensitive.
  • Emerald Dragon
    Emerald Dragon Posts: 120  Ally Member
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    I finally got all the kinks wok out for all the folders. Thanks again for all your helps @Mijzelf. I will keep that in mind about the file and directory names in Linux. I work with it ever so often, so I sometimes forget.
  • Emerald Dragon
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    @SasaNoi, Do you still needs help? What file incompatibility error are you getting? Can you post a screenshot of your error?
  • RaeAbney
    RaeAbney Posts: 1
    edited October 2021
    Thank you for sharing

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