Solved (education) Media folders missing in TrueNAS Dataset but they exist

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I am new to Linux, TrueNas, and setting up a homelab so please be patient with me and thank you for the help!

I have plex installed and on my shared Dataset, I have a SMB share called “Media” under that I have several folders, including “Movies”, “TV”, and “Music” when I logged in to the TrueNas Admin window a couple of days ago, the folders are missing when I look under Dataset.

However, my folders are there, still being seen by Plex as well as I can connect to them from my Window machine.

Any help is greatly appreciated as I do not want to lose the data!

Thanks!

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The Datasets page in the Web UI only shows ZFS Datasets. Folders are not shown in the Web UI.

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The GUI only shows Datasets and not folders. You can use the CLI / shell to view the folders inside the Dataset if you want.

4

Folders are not displayed in the UI. Only datasets are.

5

In the dataset view - you only see datasets. Not folders.

Now datasets may look like folders and indeed act like them in many regards, but they are (a bit) different.

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We need all hands on deck.

@HoneyBadger @mav @Captain_Morgan @pmh @etorix @Stux @kris @awalkerix @dan @winnielinnie

Can you confirm that the information in posts 2, 3, 4, and 5 is correct?

I’m leaning towards post #4 as the solution.

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No, I don’t think any of those is the issue. The issue is that the GUI only shows datasets, not folders.

@Jmayf05, the web GUI doesn’t include, and isn’t intended as, a file manager for the data on your server. This is a long-standing feature request (see one topic here: [Accepted] Internal Filemanager for TrueNAS Scale), and is currently slated to be in 26.04.

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How do you do that? I’m new to all this.

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