· Following a Roon update three new albums have appeared in my library. These are local files that have been on my local storage for years. Nothing has changed in their metadata or path, they are on a read-only share. The only change has been the Roon update.
I am concerned that maybe there are other albums or tracks on my local storage that are missing from my Roon library.
Tell us about your home network
· I use a NAS as local storage, Roon is running on. the same NAS.
Good news — this is not a problem, your files are safe and untouched in terms of content.
That said, we are curious about one thing: you mentioned the files are on a read-only share, but do you have any other applications running on the host system that might access or index those files — such as a media server (Plex, Jellyfin, Emby), a backup utility, or an antivirus scanner? Any of these could have modified file timestamps or metadata outside of Roon, which may have caused Roon to treat those files as newly discovered during the rescan after the update.
In any case, to confirm your library is complete you can go to Settings → Storage, click the three-dot menu next to your watched folder and select Force Rescan. If the count looks right afterward, you are all good.
Are you able to share the filepath for one of the affected files in a screenshot? We’re trying to ascertain if there’s something unique about the filepath that would cause Roon (this latest version) to suddenly reinclude it in a scan.
Do you also happen to have a recent Backup available? If you restore the Backup, does Roon still re-import these three files after a few hours?
But, when I go to “Find Backups” I get this impenetrable mess. When I have had to restore a backup I have managed to do so, but at the expense of hours of work and worry. Am I missing something?
