Hello everyone, I am having issues with my metadata not downloading. Ive tried a few things from different forum posts already but cant seem to get anything to work. Ive followed ChuckPA’s post in this thread here. I have also tried JuiceWSA’s post in this thread here. My naming scheme is always Title (year).mp4/mkv.
I run PMS in my FreeNAS server. I recently tried going to VMware on that server, before this I had no issues. I uploaded all my content to the cloud, once I couldnt figure out VMware, I set back up FreeNAS and plex and redownloaded everything, had this issue, reinstalled everything again and still had metadata issues.
I also saw a post about permissions being the issue as well and now of course I cant find it and I am not sure how to check if the permissions are the issue.
May 17, 2019 05:42:22.298 [0x80da3e400] ERROR - Error cleaning metadata bundles: boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct: No such file or directory: "/Plex Media Server/Metadata"
actually It might indeed be permissions, try this:
chown -R plex:plex /usr/local/plexdata OR chown -R plex:plex /usr/local/plexdata-plexpass (depending which version you have).
Sorry to revive but just wanted to let you know it was definitely a permissions issue. Unfortunately what you gave me didn’t work, but would have if I set up Plex on my freenas server correctly. I forgot to set up a dedicated Plex dataset, once I did that and setting plex as user and group permissions with plex:plex, everything worked. Thank you
EDIT: I only just attempted to fix this last night, thats why it took so long.
having a data set for this is defiantly a good idea, easy backups and / or snapshots, and you can migrate to a newer jails faster if you ever need to, so defiantly the best thing to do, but its not mandatory.
