Sorry to hear this is such a headache especially after you’ve been trying so hard yet we seemingly are stranded on mac island while everyone else is off watching shows.
Our tools:
- Every piece of software that Plex makes is released on the Download page and concurrently Announced on the Forum
- You asked with understandable concern for a detailed Change Log. There’s a shortlist of fixes with each Plex Media Server release. For example the latest Server beta from today fixes a crash overnight with Clean Bundles.
- I realize it’s hard. So I asked for the most common tool, your logs, to see why it’s crashing.
- After that next comes a Plex Dance because media assimilation into Plex can abort when there’s a crash, leaving some weirdness with an episode like
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (2015) - S08E15
When there’s cruft associated with a file, upgrading or downgrading would not fix metadata weirdness. The cruft can be caused by a crash or a weird broadcast or unexpected fault. If cruft exists, the solution is to Plex Dance the affected episodes, if not the whole season 08. - I trust what you said at first, that previous versions ran smoothly.
Generally what we do is get you on one of those versions and then locate any remaining issue in your logs and fix it when the common opinion that a certain PMS version works on your hardware. There are many older versions listed on mac filehorse.
When you use words like corruption, you’re using a technical term with respect to Plex because the server runs a massive SQL database. When it gets corruption that’s logged with SQLITE entries in
Plex Media Server.log
that are ERROR messages about corruption or malformed, then we discuss how to repair those or if convenient to restore an uncorrupted backup.
Without logs I’m out of suggestions besides move your server aside and build a test server until it fails like I do or plex dance every series that’s giving you problems. I personally don’t care about losing watched states because I’ve watched 99% of my stuff.
