As first order of business, Please create a share to use for your media which is not the plex share.
You can make share names anything you like and you can even create one share with subfolders as long as it’s not the Plex share.
This is necessary because:
- Placing media in the Plex share
-and-
- Making any mistake whatsoever with permissions
-or- - Specifying which folder path to monitor incorrectly
will result in PMS failing. These two types of mistakes (2 & 3 above) are extremely common. In most cases, by the time it’s recognized, PMS will have “wrapped itself up into a pretzel” and be unusable which would force a full, cold, restart from scratch.
To help prevent this, I place 6 files there, all visible from FileStation or mounted drive folders, in the 6 most commonly spoken languages, to prevent media from being placed there:
Please do not place any media files here.
Bitte legen Sie hier keine Mediendateien ab.
Veuillez ne placer aucun fichier multimédia ici.
Por favor, no coloque ningún archivo multimedia aquí.
ここにメディアファイルを置かないでください。
请不要在此处放置任何媒体文件
I also have created:
