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I know some of you also have a Plex media server set up in their homes, so hopefully someone will be able to give me a clue about what's going awry with my new setup... People on the Plex subreddit haven't had any suggestions so far.

I've been able to set up Plex Media Server from a RPM on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed just fine for the most part, except for one thing — it can only detect videos that I place in the first library I create, never the second. Both are in subfolders of a "Videos" folder in my home directory (for example, ~/Videos/A and ~/Videos/B) with identical permissions, no symlinks involved.

If I place video files into Library 1 and tell it to rescan, they appear; if I move those files into Library 2 and have it rescan, both the web app and the desktop app will continue to insist that the library is empty. Move them back to the first library, and voilà, they're detected and available again!

I've tried naming the libraries different things ("Movies" "Shows" "Mom" "Library1" etc.), setting them to auto-detect, manually telling them to rescan, completely uninstalling & reinstalling both the PleX Media Server and desktop app (including deleting the configuration directories), creating the libraries in reverse order ("B" then "A") logging out & in again, rebooting my computer...nothing seems to help.

Separately, even though Plex Media Server was installed from an official RPM (not Snap or Flatpak), I was also unable to get it to work with symlinks (including relative symlinks) or mounted disks aside from / and /home. It's not a big deal right now as my video library is fairly small, but over time it could become an issue.

Any suggestions?