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MiniDLNA couldn’t find any new files in my media_dir even though I was adding new files. I think the problem was that my media_dir was set to an external hard drive.

(media_dir=v,/media/ExtHD/x/x). I got it working, here are the steps I used to fix.

sudo service minidlna stop sudo rm -rf /var/cache/minidlna/* sudo nano /etc/minidlna.conf

  • Set the media_dir back to default location - media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/video
  • Create a link in /var/lib/minidlna to the directory you want monitored.

sudo ln -s /media/ExtHD/video /var/lib/minidlna/videos sudo service minidlna force-reload

Your files.db will be recreated, this can take a while though.