Friend can't see shared media (There are no items in this library)

I’ve been using Plex for many years successfully on my own with minimal problems. My setup is: Plex Media Server running on my Mac Mini at home; media lives on a NAS; clients are iOS, web, Apple TV, &c. both inside my home network and remotely over the internet.

Recently I’ve shared a few different libraries from my server with a friend who has never used Plex before. One library was videos and two were television shows. All the libraries work completely fine for me. I’ve helped her create a Plex account and sign into it. She can see the libraries that I’ve shared with her, but when she actually opens each library, it says: “There are no items in this library.”

I’ve tried everything I can think of to get the items to appear, but I’m completely at a loss. Right now she’s on the same wifi network and it still won’t work. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Did you put anything into the fields ‘Ratings’ or ‘Labels’?

Thanks. I haven’t set any ratings or labels - but I also can’t seem to figure out where to find that Restrictions screen that you’ve got. Could I have turned it off somewhere in a deep setting?

Nevermind! @OttoKerner I found the Restrictions tab in the user settings, removed the nonsensical labels that were there for some reason, and now everything works as expected. Thank you very much!!!

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I’m having a similar issue. I’ve sent my children invites, but they can see nothing. there are no restrictions, as I don’t have a plex pass, and can’t set any.

Probably a different issue.
One of your kids has yet to accept the invitation.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105738-creating-and-managing-server-shares/
(scroll down to ’ Accept an Invitation’)

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