I upgraded my Ubuntu server to 22.04.1 and reinstalled plex, now Plex cannot find any of my files

[ChuckPa]

@dakerrichardt

/media/dhaker/_Plex_Media

You misunderstood.

The design and implementation of Gnome desktop forever prohibits another user (plex) from seeing any of your files in /media.

Notice the naming: /media/YOUR_USERNAME/volume_name

You must move the mount point (manually create one) away from /media/YOUR_USERNAME using a manual mount

-OR-

Change PMS to run as your username.

There is no choice in this. One or the other. Linux is strict about preserving permissions and privacy between different usernames (you vs plex)

You can customize Plex to run as your username but that’s a bigger task.

Here’s the How-To to make your media visible to plex

Linux Tips

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 demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …

Here’s the How-To to customize PMS to run as your username

Linux Tips

Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems This information is intended for those systems where cat /proc/1/comm returns systemd. On systems which use Systemd (Ubuntu 16+, Fedora, Centos 7, Debian 8,) you create this customization file which SystemD reads prior to launching PMS. This file is independent of the default configuration and service control mechanisms in /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service. Your customization override is preserved across updates, uninstal…