Hi, I have a RPi 5 and added an external drive which has the files that I want to add to Plex, but when I try to create a library, I can’t navigate to it or force plex to see it. I mapped as a drive in Windows without any issue and I’m able to access the drive in Linux, but Plex can’t. Any though…

A few things: Always make certain of the permissions of the mount point directory BEFORE the drive is mounted. exFAT and NTFS, being Microsoft filesystems, don’t show up in Linux as you expect. – They have no sense of ownership and always owned by root (the system) – They have no sense of…

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Hi, Thx for the reply but the drive is connected to the Raspberry Pi 5 via usb and mounted under media/user/“drive label” but plex is unable to see the files in it. If I use my Windows machine which also has PMS, it can via the smb share, The drive is fornatted as exFat.

I understand and that’s all superficial / immaterial. Please now go read [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to d…

H again, Thx for the help :slight_smile: It worked perfectly :slight_smile:

Hi, Sorry to bother again but after PMS been able to access the drive, I can’t make any changes to it remotely or within the Raspberry PI OS/Debian 12. The owner of the folder /mnt/xxxxx is root and even changing chmod to all users, after mounting again the folders of the drive are set to the user…

Hi again, That did it :slight_smile: Thx for all the help :slight_smile:

External drive not visible in Plex

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External drive not visible in Plex

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