My computer died. I installed a new hard drive and installed Linux Mint 20.2 as it was what I had before the crash. I have reinstalled Plex and its media server, but can not remember the command to connect the libraries, which are on a 5TB Seagate drive that connects via USB to the computer/server…

Sounds like you’ve mounted that drive without giving the system account plex permission to see it… The Linux tips & tricks should help you with that [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Tips & Tricks of the Linux trade. Below, you’ll find a collection of…

I’m over an hour into trying to follow those tips and tricks - problem is steps are left out or rather the details of how to perform those steps are left out and so far I’m not guessing correctly. I’ll get back on this tomorrow.

Connecting to my disk drive that contains my media

Plex Media Server

tom80H September 6, 2021, 12:16am 2

Sounds like you’ve mounted that drive without giving the system account plex permission to see it…

The Linux tips & tricks should help you with that

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Connecting to my disk drive that contains my media

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