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I didn't find anyone mentioning this(did a search already)... so if this topic has been cover. sorry and please redirect me to a "fix"

I have been running TwonkyServer 6.0.39 and it has been working great. I noticed that since I have moved to TwonkyServer 7.0.5-Special my directory isn't working how it was in 6.0.39. Let me explain.

I have a folder/directory in /mnt/disk1/mediaserver within this folder I have symbolic links to different parts where I have 3D, TV, New Movies, Music and Movies

In 6.0.39 my "shared" setup is looking only at /mnt/disk1/mediaserver and it would automatically pick up all the movies. I have set the DLNA Receiver to only "By Folder"... and it has been working pretty desirable.

However! With 7.0.5-Special I can't set up "shared folder" /mnt/disk1/mediaserver ... it will not pick up any movies.. however it will only pick up the Music. The only way around this is I have to create multiple share /mnt/disk1/mediaserver/TV, /mnt/disk1/mediaserver/3D...and so forth. This works, however now I can't distinguish easily what are TV shows and what are new movies and what are 3D movies.

So if anyone can help me with this... that would be great.

When you see this problem
Is there only one share defined for all media types under sharing in the settings page?

I usuually use one share for each media type

I use "video" as the share media type for my /mnt/disk1/mediaserver/ then use "music" for my music folder. Like I said, it works perfectly in TwonkyServer v6.

What I have also noticed is this. When I have the share set to /mnt/disk1/mediaserver, in the Status page it will NEVER scan or find any video. It will only work if I set up the share as /mnt/disk1/mediaserver/TV, /mnt/disk1/mediaserver/Movies and so on...

Since 7.0.7 is out for NAS. I am going to upgrade and see if that has address this issue. Will report back

Here is something else to check
check to see if followlinks is enabled in the twonkyserver.ini
I think that by default the nas builds have contentbase set to /

check to make sure that it is the case

here is the part in twonkyserver.ini

# follow symbolic links while scanning (Linux only)
followlinks=1

# for Linux/NAS systems this is the basedirectory used for content sharing (prep
contentbase=/


I haven't done the upgrade yet, since I couldn't find the 7.0.8 anywhere...

Just tried it again... nothing changed...

even did a http://localhost:9050/rpc/rebuild

and here are my symbolic links

root@LSHOME:/mnt/disk1/mediaserver# ls -al
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 70 May 25 14:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 147 Apr 23 00:29 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 22 19:14 3D -> /mnt/usbdisk2/3D
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 5 02:13 Chinese -> /mnt/usbdisk2/chinese
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 27 2011 Movies -> /mnt/usbdisk1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 27 2011 New Releases -> /mnt/disk1/new_releases
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 27 2011 TV -> /mnt/disk1/TV

looks like something is broken with the followlinks=1

I think I fixed it!

I have to put /mnt/disk1/mediaserver share as the FIRST entry! If I have /mnt/disk1/music as the first entry it will not scan the symbolic link

I don't know if that is a bug... (I would assume it is, since I don't think it should matter which share goes first)

interesting find

are these external / removable drives?
/mnt/usbdisk1
/mnt/usbdisk2

If so, I remember, that they should be defined in the twonkyserver.ini

# removable media drives
rmdrives=

yes, usbdisk1 and usbdisk2 are USB mounted external HDD....

What are the parameter use to define "rmdrives="

I "think" it could/should look like this

rmdrives=/mnt/usbdisk1,/mnt/usbdisk2