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You can have the library update on change or at set time intervals if the auto detect doesn’t work.

See this article:

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289306-scanning-vs-refre...

as i said in my ancestor post i'm far from a power user. its quite likely i tweaked some setting several years ago and forgot about it. I put something in my flex drive and it's there within seconds.

I believe config settings exist for Plex to be more aggressive. Alternatively if you use third party software like Radarr or Sonarr they can use webhooks to update instantly when media is added

You can change the frequency to be as short as you want, fyi.