"Invisible" folders with content, but it's definitely there and can be accessed.

[Devilpuppet]

Hi guys,

I have been a happy user of FreeNAS for a while now (I love tinkering with it, to get it to work as I want it), but I've recently noticed something weird: One of my folders has disappeared from my Finder on Mac OS.

I'm running Transmission and Plex on my server (next to some backups), and Plex is indexing everything I am adding with Transmission. Even the folders that is invisible (but accessible) through Finder.

The situation: There's a few folders with content, which are being indexed (and can be played) by Plex and can be entered by using the "Go to folder" function in finder, but in no way can I just get the folder listed in the finder itself.
Attached are some screenshots of the folder structure when in one of the folders, the folder structure when in the "parent"-folder and the .txt output when making a temporary files list from this comment. On the Sublime-screenshot, I have made empty lines on the "fake" folder structure, which shows there are 3 invisible folders.

When I started writing this post, I thought it was just one folder. However, when I started to analyze the outputs, I noticed there were multiple "hidden" folders.

Things I've tried:
- Restarting the server
- Shutting the server down and turning it back on
- See if I had accidentally hidden the folders
- Changing the name of the folders

So, in short: folders are there, just not visible in my finder. What is happening?

 

[sretalla]

It's going to be difficult to tell exactly what's going on from where I'm sitting, but here are a few ideas that come to mind when looking at the shared information:

You have a single quote/apostrophe in one of the "hidden names"... perhaps try removing that and see if it improves things.

You have a potential case-seinsitivity problem with Band of Brothers... try making one of them unique by adding 1 character to the end.

You seem to have a difference in owner which is not limited to the problems, but I think is common to them all... perhaps make the owner of all files the UID 921 account.

I take it that you're telling plex to scan the libraries and it's not finding those, but how about other new files... or is it that no new file can be added?

 

[Devilpuppet]

Hi Sretalla,

I'll try all your suggestions later today. The reason I answer now, instead of when I got to try your suggestions, is the fact that Plex CAN scan the folders. I can also play files from those folders. So in some way, they are visible, just like they're visible when I `ls` in my `series`-folder.

I just can't download anything into them anymore. So whenever Transmission is trying to move a completed file, it's stuck in the `incomplete`-folder. So Plex can read the folders, but Transmission can't. I can also see them through the terminal.

I don't know if this update helps, but I felt like it was important information :)

 

[sretalla]

An important question would be who are you when you can successfully list the files? (robbert or 921... or someone else like root?)

Are you running jails for Transmission and Plex? which UIDs are you using for the services there (is that the 921 user?)