Can't Link Files to Plex Server

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Server Version#: 3.69.1
Player Version#:
New Comp. Win 10 Pro 64 bit
NAS Synology DS216j
All files are on NAS
When I try to create library it takes me to a “Add Library” screen. The “browse for Media Folder” dropdown only has C drive items. I can change the address in the space above but not sure what to put there so it can look at the NAS. Tried the ip address but didn’t work. Windows sees the NAS under “Network” in File Manager.

Sorry if this is dumb, but I have scoured the Plex pages for info and am stuck.

Thanks for your time on this…

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You’ll need to map the NAS share to a drive on your Win 10 machine so Plex can see it an access the media.

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Thanks so much for your time. Have tried to map the NAS but it doesn’t work. The NAS shows in File Manager under “Network”. Is there somewhere I can look on my old computer and get the address that was used for the libraries? It worked great for many years and the only thing that has changed is new comp, new install of PMS. Thanks again… so frustrated because of limited knowledge of this sort of thing.

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From File Explorer right click on This PC and select the Map network drive:

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From the Map Network Drive screen select a drive letter to map and fill in the Server and Share names on the NAS.
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A couple of other comments I would recommend:

  1. Working with other users I would recommend doing all recordings locally, not directly to the NAS. If the NAS is not immediately available for some reason a recording could potentially fail. I always recommend recording locally and then setup some process to move recordings to the NAS. You can have multiple storage locations added to a library so you can add one from your C: drive and then add the NAS storage location.

  2. Since you will be storing media on the NAS I would recommend turning off the Empty Trash automatically setting under the Library settings. Again if the NAS is not immediately available when Plex starts a scan it could potentially mark the media as deleted. On a subsequent scan when the NAS is found Plex could add back all of the media files and they would then all show as recently added,

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Thanks very much for taking vou’re valuable time to guide me through this. I was able to create the links using the ip address in the address for Plex to look.

Again, thanks so much!

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