diff --git a/src/components/mediaLibraryEditor/mediaLibraryEditor.js b/src/components/mediaLibraryEditor/mediaLibraryEditor.js
index 215fb7b3a3..ec19807a02 100644
--- a/src/components/mediaLibraryEditor/mediaLibraryEditor.js
+++ b/src/components/mediaLibraryEditor/mediaLibraryEditor.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import '../formdialog.scss';
 import '../../elements/emby-toggle/emby-toggle';
 import '../../styles/flexstyles.scss';
 import './style.scss';
+import alert from '../alert';
 import toast from '../toast/toast';
 import confirm from '../confirm/confirm';
 import template from './mediaLibraryEditor.template.html';
@@ -30,6 +31,16 @@ function onEditLibrary() {
     isCreating = true;
     loading.show();
     const dlg = dom.parentWithClass(this, 'dlg-libraryeditor');
+    // when the library has moved or symlinked, the ItemId is not correct anymore
+    // this can lead to a forever spinning value on edit the library parameters
+    if (!currentOptions.library.ItemId) {
+        loading.hide();
+        dialogHelper.close(dlg);
+        alert({
+            text: globalize.translate('LibraryInvalidItemIdError')
+        });
+        return false;
+    }
     let libraryOptions = libraryoptionseditor.getLibraryOptions(dlg.querySelector('.libraryOptions'));
     libraryOptions = Object.assign(currentOptions.library.LibraryOptions || {}, libraryOptions);
     ApiClient.updateVirtualFolderOptions(currentOptions.library.ItemId, libraryOptions).then(() => {
diff --git a/src/strings/en-us.json b/src/strings/en-us.json
index 04516e847c..786cdc814f 100644
--- a/src/strings/en-us.json
+++ b/src/strings/en-us.json
@@ -977,6 +977,7 @@
     "LibraryAccessHelp": "Select the libraries to share with this user. Administrators will be able to edit all folders using the metadata manager.",
     "LibraryScanFanoutConcurrency": "Parallel library scan tasks limit",
     "LibraryScanFanoutConcurrencyHelp": "Maximum number of parallel tasks during library scans. Setting this to 0 will choose a limit based on your systems core count. WARNING: Setting this number too high may cause issues with network file systems; if you encounter problems lower this number.",
+    "LibraryInvalidItemIdError": "The library is in an invalid state and cannot be edited. You are possibly encountering a bug: the path in the database is not the correct path on the filesystem.",
     "LimitSupportedVideoResolution": "Limit maximum supported video resolution",
     "LimitSupportedVideoResolutionHelp": "Use 'Maximum Allowed Video Transcoding Resolution' as maximum supported video resolution.",
     "List": "List",