Part of the reason I wanted to create a Plex server is to be able to allow my mother-in-law to download photos of the kids without having to send her full-sized photos. Is there anyway to do this through the managed user feature?

No, unfortunately only the owner at this time is able to download from the libaries. I would say personally that I agree with this (at least for photos), hopefully it’s something that gets added at some point.

Allowing Downloads for Shared Libraries

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Allowing Downloads for Shared Libraries

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