Snapshot replication and Plex Music

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Silly me… I followed Will’s (excellent!) instructions to enable Snapshot Replication, and very ‘smartly’ thought I’d add my Plex-created ‘Music’ folder.

Big mistake!

Snapshot Replication created a snapshots folder in /volume1/music/#snapshot. The folder currently contains 12 snapshots. When I open the Music folder in Plex, it shows each album - you guessed it! - 12 times, as Plex ‘sees’ each snapshot’s contents as the artists and their albums and consolidates them when you use Plex Music.

I’ve now disabled Snapshot Replication on Plex Music and waiting for each "Immutable snapshot” to end its protection period so I can delete it.

I’ll go back to using Hyper Backup on my Plex Music folder!

Note: I only used Snapshot Replication on the Plex Music folder but presume using it on other Plex folders would have caused the same duplications problem.

Question: does anyone know if the Plex Music library folder can be moved to a user in ‘homes’ or, is it locked to be /volume1/music?

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I made the same mistake with a Plex movie library, although I was using local snapshots and not replication. As a result, Plex scanned the snapshots folder and now I’ve got tons of duplicates in my library, as well as broken associations.

I believe making the snapshots “not visible” should avoid the problem in the future. However, I am still trying to fix my Plex library, which has been completely messed up…

EDIT: How I solved the problem

  • I made snapshots invisible.
  • I rescanned all folders, optimized the database and cleaned the bundles, stopped & restarted Plex and all was back to normal