tom80H
February 1, 2022, 5:58pm
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As per your parallel thread …
let’s go ahead and review the permissions on your Syno. Make sure the system user PlexMediaServer has write permissions to the share where you want Plex to record media.
FAQ 19: Setting permissions to allow Plex access to media files
Before beginning, it’s important to remember one key point; Plex doesn’t have any special privileges on Synology except for being able to access the Video Transcoding acceleration hardware. It cannot read any of your files unless you expressly grant permission. This is a fundamental principle of Linux (which Synology uses for DSM)
Because of how Synology grants permission, access to files is broken into two different …
FAQ 27 - Migrating an existing PMS from DSM 6 to DSM 7
NOTICE: DSM 5 → [ DSM 6 ] → DSM 7 First Step
If you first started using Plex with DSM 5, then upgraded to DSM 6, because of a change internal to DSM 6, you will need to perform this step before you start the DSM 7 upgrade.
If you never used DSM 5, or deleted the Plex share sometime during DSM 6, you can skip this step and continue with the normal upgrade steps
Rename the existing Plex shared folder to Plex.old
Create a new Pl…