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 Ad…

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

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

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.

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.

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 Filem…

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

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

TrueNAS General

bacon October 3, 2025, 10:42pm 2

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

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

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