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Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:34 pm**

I have a TS-453A. I recently upgraded to 4.5.1.1540, and I think this may have been when a weird issue started...

I noticed that a few shows just disappeared from my plex which mounts a media directory through NFS on the NAS. Investigating it, I noticed that not all subfolders are visible on the mounted directory. Something like 1/3 of folders don't show up on an

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command. I tried creating a folder, which is not listable, but I can change to the directory, as you can see below:

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ls -l | grep -i escape
❯ mkdir Escape
❯ ls -l | grep -i escape
❯ ls -ld Escape
drwxrwx--- 2 abc abc 4096 Jan 10 15:49 Escape
❯ ls -l | grep -i emergency
drwxrwx---  3 abc abc 4096 Jan 10 12:18 Emergency
❯ ls -ld Emergency
drwxrwx--- 3 abc abc 4096 Jan 10 12:18 Emergency

If I do a ls or ls -l, Emergency shows up but Escape doesn't. Yet both folders have identical permissions. Anyone else having this issue? I'm stuck - no idea how to troubleshoot. Is this the firmware upgrade?

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:48 am**

I ended up creating a new share (the one I was using was the Multimedia share) and moving the content there. That share now behaves. I am still none the wiser as to why the Multimedia share stopped behaving.

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:24 am**

I've recently had similar problems in the Multimedia folder and recreating the share using "restore default folders" is the prescribed fix, but did not work in my case, even with moving the files out and back again.

What I found was that if you ssh to the NAS and visit Multimedia, for some reason the execute bit was missing from some folders. This was not visible from a client machine, only by ssh.
drw-rw-rw-

(Without an execute bit, a folder doesn't work as a folder.)

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chmod -R 777 /share/Multimedia

was effective as a fix. I am not sure of the root cause. Certainly no-one deliberately made the change. I suspect something running on the NAS did this.

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