Serviio

Hello,

I like serviio, I used to use it on my server. MediaBrowser wasn't the greatest addon but it worked on my server.
But now I decided to go local and installed it on my single board computer with Debian.
It installed fine and was working.

But, when I removed the mounted drive and attached another, I started having problems.

Serviio still tries to use the old directory and can not remove the old indexed files from it's database





So, I stopped Serviio.
I moved library folder to library-old
Started serviio.

I see that another library folder is created.
But I still have problems.
This time my log shows other errors.


Also when I do it like this I can't connect to serviio anymore.

So I moved the library folder back.
Now I can access Serviio via Web Gui or ServiDroid but I STILL CAN NOT delete the old, unwanted folder from my Library, can't add either. Serviio is basically useless right now.


How do I create a new database from scratch?
Serviio doesn't have such an option and uninstall + purge + reinstall is not the wisest option and whenever I delete a folder from the hard drive, Serviio will have the same problem... Won't it?

Aaaaaand here we have YET ANOTHER unanswered, disregarded post.
Perfect.

Perhaps unanswered, but not disregarded. Sometimes the people that view a post just can't provide a suggestion.

My suggestion is to uninstall Serviio, ensure the folder has been completely removed (and delete it manually if anything is left) then reinstall.

As to your question about it happening again. I'm a little rusty with Linux. Why would you dismount a drive, unless it's a portable device? My experience (using Windows) has not shown any issues when adding or changing hard drives. I currently have 6 hard drives in my Serviio box, but I used to have more, smaller drives. I bought some larger drives, copied (moved) the media from the smaller drives, and then removed the smaller ones. I never had an issue with the library. Now, when I upgraded to Windows 10 I decided to do a clean install, so if there were lingering issues I was unaware of they disappeared after the upgrade.

MediaBrowser isn't an add-on. It's built into the core of Serviio. However, you can only access it during the trial period (15 days) unless you buy the Pro license. I think it's good enough that I paid for it. Sure, Plex may have a nicer web interface, but I'm perfectly satisfied with MediaBrowser.

I claimed it as disregarded after seeing so many examples of such posts.
That's the reason. (:

Well, only that seems to be the fix right now.
But that's a pity. I also have Plex, subsonic etc. in my server and none of them had such problems while I changed the drive.

"Why did you remove it" you ask.
There can be various of reasons but in my case I removed the drive, formatted it to EXT4 and re-copied the files. But doing so the UUID of the partition has changed, thus the mount address.
And yes, this is a usb hdd connected to a single board computer.

On my web server, I use NFS shared folders to mount the drives and Serviio doesn't handle changes that well.
Never tried it windows. Windows is good for entertaintment for me. But for servers, I use linux. Debian to be more clear.


I know, MediaBrowser is not an addon. I am a paid user myself.
At one post, the admin said if HTML5 is used Serviio can't handle the skip feature thus rendering it useless. But any other html5 online video player can do so. But that's another topic.

There should be an option in Serviio to completely purge the existing database OR find & remove broken references in the database.
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Normally the Force refresh button will do the library purge, sort of. The error you posted should not normally happen, basically the delete event was registered but the file has already been removed from the library.

Ideally when you remove a drive for ever, you first remove it from your shared folders in the console. It should make the process more straight forward next time.