Your setting page looks very different then mine
The guide you linked to is from 2012
Try uninstalling the one you have and using community applications install this version PlexMediaServer - plexinc
rick, I know next to nothing about unraid, and only a little more about dockers.
docker is like a virtual machine, it abstracts everything from the bare metal.
so if the current real path to something is
/mnt/user/movies mapped to /movies then the docker/plex only see’s /movies
the problem (I suspect) is that the user folder has special permissions, which are blocking plex from having access to /movies (which is really /mnt/user/movies).
wherever your unraid data storage is, I am suggesting that you create a media folder there, then make sub folders for tv, movies, music, photos, etc.
then the docker mappings would be something like
/mnt/media/movies map to /movies (for plex)
/mnt/media/tv map to /tv
and so on
for testing purposes, you can leave your files where they currently are.
the object is to get plex running so you can navigate the plex set/config and add the librarys and paths like the screenshots I posted above).
only after you get plex to that point, would you want to physically move the files into those new movie/tv folders.
but again, perhaps I am wrong and this has nothing to do with the user folder or permissions.
it simply the first thing I would check though.
if you are not familiar and comfortable with how linux/unraid does permissions, I would highly suggest you STOP and go research until you understand.
if you do not know or understand what you are doing, then you can make things even worse for yourself by just typing random stuff you find on internet.
Here are my setting using the version I mentioned above from the community applications. You can set your data path (media) to the main level of your share instead of each folder then once you have Plex started you set to library folders within the Plex app ui. I have ssd cache drives setup for app data so the locations for that and transcode might not be what you want
Also this is the guy for all things unraid
watch his videos on how to set up dockers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TTsV9nfazk
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