i followed ur advice to get my old media to show up but its not working any help?
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tomspark wrote:
Need a bit more to go on, fwaygo — which thread were you following? docker ps, the exact command you ran, what you expected to happen, what actually showed up. Even a screenshot of the Jellyfin UI / dashboard / error message helps narrow it down. Right now I don't know if you're stuck on the dashboard, Jellyfin library scan, MEDIAROOT path, or something else.
fwaygo wrote:
i followed what u said to do in my last post abt mnt the drive i did i went into my files and hardrive gave every permisson to everything, i then followed up with what was said to do in the doc files, u said in my last post abt transferring to refer to 3 forgive me but what did that mean? thank you in advance i appreciate it. if you need more info i can provide
fwaygo wrote:
this also pops up when trying to add that path, and i also ran this command as well "sudo sparkbox media-finish"
tomspark wrote:
Jellyfin runs in a Linux container, so it can't see Windows paths like J:\movies. The path you type in Jellyfin's "Add Media Library" needs to be the path INSIDE its container — for SparkBox, that's /data/Movies (and /data/TV, /data/Music). SparkBox binds your MEDIAROOT (set in /opt/sparkbox/.env) to /data inside Jellyfin, so anything sitting under ${MEDIAROOT}/Movies on your host shows up at /data/Movies. Try /data/Movies in that field and click Add — should resolve. As for the 3 — link me the prior post you're referring to and I'll re-explain that step.
fwaygo wrote:
https://demox.world/post/8441
tomspark wrote:
Ah gotcha — "3" was the third bullet of my prior reply on /post/8441 (the "Where files go" section). For your J: drive: WSL2 auto-mounts it at /mnt/j/, so edit /opt/sparkbox/.env, set MEDIAROOT=/mnt/j/movies, save, then run sparkbox restart media. The path you type into Jellyfin's library wizard stays /data/Movies — that's what Jellyfin sees of MEDIAROOT inside the container. If your files sit directly at J:\movies with no Movies subfolder underneath, set MEDIAROOT=/mnt/j and use /data in Jellyfin instead — it'll scan whatever's there.