Moving my Metadata to another folder breaks my Plex Server

[UnderLord]

Server Version#:1.32.6.7557
Player Version#:N/A
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>

I’ve had my metadata in one of my bigger drives for a while. Today, my Plex won’t start if I use the override file to move the folder to one my mounted drives. It keeps failing to start.

I’ve tried changing the owner of the folder, I’ve tried rebuilding the database, but nothing. If I remove the override to another folder, I can start the service, but the minute I move the Application Support folder to another drive, Plex crashes.

Is there anything else I can do to fix this?

[ChuckPa]

Please show me where you want to put it and what you have in the override file.

I will also ask the basic questions:

1. Is the target device a native Linux filesystem (EXT4/XFS) native to the host ?
2. Does the plex user have full permission from the top-most directory down?

[UnderLord]

This is my override file.

And this is the file system it resided in.

And yes, I made sure the plex user had permission and recursively changed the permissions to ensure it.

When I delete the override it works, but the original folder doesn’t have enough to space to hold all the metadata so I moved it a couple years ago, but today it doesn’t seem to want to work. Crashes everytime I reinstate the override.

[ChuckPa]

OK, here’s what we’re going to do… Fix permissions at the mount point BEFORE mounting the filesystem and then copy the data again (just to resync)

as root (sudo bash) and stay in that shell

1. systemctl stop plexmediaserver
2. umount /mnt/3rd
3. chmod 755 /mnt /mnt/3rd
4. mount /mnt/3rd
5. chmod 755 /mnt/3rd/plexdata
6. cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
7. tar cf - ./Library | (cd /mnt/3rd/plexdata ; tar xf -)

Now put the service file back into position - then

1. systemctl daemon-reload
2. systemctl start plexmediaserver

[UnderLord]

If anybody ever tells me angels don’t exist, I’m going to punch them in the face.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[ChuckPa]

LOL

sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver

Confirm the drive is active
then clear out /var/lib/plexmediaserver (but do not remove the dir itself)

[UnderLord]

Yep, we’re good. All the metadata is going back to the correct drive and I got all the tags on my library back.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

[ChuckPa]

What are those “Error starting framework” ??

Is everything OK?
Should I look at the server debug logs ZIP file?