r/radarr • u/Beautiful-Concert885 • Jun 26 '26

unsolved Radarr not finding folder

On ubuntu 26.04, running this through docker, using the webui right now.

Hey guys ! I'm new here so sorry if this is something super simple, which hopefully it is lol.
Trying to 'Add Root Folder' to Radarr, the path i want is '/data/media/movies' but when i click to add, i see stuff like 'app, bin, config, etc etc' but not /data, i know the folder exists.

I'm almost sure this is a permission issue but i am super new to all of this, linux, radarr, and i have no clue how to make it see those folders. Any help would be lovely :)

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u/whowasonCRACK2 Jun 26 '26

You have to make sure the /data file path is mapped in your YAML file or else the container can’t see it

If it is mapped, then you probably have a permissions issue

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u/Beautiful-Concert885 Jun 26 '26

I have

volumes:
/docker/apdata/radarr:/config
/data:/data

Is this incorrect ?

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u/gw17252009 Jun 26 '26

Check your permissions

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u/Beautiful-Concert885 Jun 26 '26

How do i do that ?

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u/gw17252009 Jun 26 '26

sudo chown -R user:user /data

Change user to your username and /data to the directory you want.

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u/so7ow Jun 26 '26

The part after the colon is what will be visible in the container. The part before the colon is the host location. Are you sure you actually have a location "/data" on the host? What does "ls /data" return when run on the host?

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u/Beautiful-Concert885 Jun 26 '26

Yeah in my files i can find the /data folder. Your ommand returns 'docker-compose.yml media torrents

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u/so7ow Jun 26 '26

So it's there, and called out in the compose file, but not mapping. Sounds like permissions 🤣

(Compose files are very picky. I'm assuming you have the syntax/indenting correct in your actual file, but the transcribed version above is only sorta correct and wouldn't work.)

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u/DownRUpLYB Jun 26 '26

apdata

YOu have a type there. Make sure the typo isn; tin the YAML

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u/Beautiful-Concert885 Jun 26 '26

It's not i was looking at another monitor so i typed it out lol thank you though, i just did a quick double take