How to watch downloads offline in the new Plex app?

The new Plex desktop app is cool and all with the downloading but how do I actually watch the downloads when I have no internet connection? When I open the app without an internet connection it just says “Plex is not reachable” with no option of getting to downloaded content. Isn’t this kind of the whole point of the downloads feature?
Any ideas? Or is this half baked for the moment will fully work soon? Thanks.

This is all I get.

No details, no troubleshooting info, no nothing. It worked fine with the old app.

Absolute garbage.

I can download stuff but when my laptop doesn’t have an internet connection and I open the Plex app it says “Plex is not reachable” and I can’t get to the downloads folder…

Yeah I have the same issue…

Seems insane that this doesn’t work. Of course “Plex is not reachable”, let me watch the shows I’ve downloaded!

I’m having the same issue as OP. Here is the log file of the issue Plex Media Server.log (23.3 KB)

The work around is to disable ALL network adapters.

See this thread for more info: [BUG] Cannot start the new Windows app when offline

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