When running this way, because of how some distros are, running mixed mode in your home directory can be a real problem.
I always recommend keeping the home directory sacred and creating that secondary group should you need to access it.
I don’t see why you do need to access the metadata as there’s nothing in there of relevance to a user with the possible exception of adding plug-ins .
If I may suggest? Please consider /home/plexdata , user plex, group whatever-you-like, adding both users to that group.
Here’s my quick how-to if it helps.
Regarding what I’m seeing in your files is PMS telling me that it’s trying to create metadata and can’t because there is already existing metadata. It’s erroring and making it stop (an impossible situation is occurring).
When’s the last you empties the trash and “Clean Bundles” (which would remove those old metadata diretories which are no longer in the database ) ?
