I have an odd issue. For a long time now i have been using the pms service for plex. Now while trying to use the standard launch plex media server icon i get an error saying corrupt database. I can still launch it as a service with no issues but not without the service. if i try rolling back to a p…

Which Windows user account did you select for the service to run under? If it was the ‘SYSTEM’ account (or any other Windows user account not identical to your regular Windows user), then the regular Windows user you are using has no write permissions to the files created by the service. Which cou…

the service is running with a local admin account. i am trying to run it the regular way with the same account as the service account.

Did you think of stopping the service before trying to start it regularly? Apart from that: stop both service and regular-run Plex. Make sure there is no Plex-related process still showing in the Task Manager (CTRL+Shift+Esc). Then reset user access permissions on the plex data folder. Here is a h…

all processes are stopped totally in the pms service, and windows service. i confirmed it all in task manager. the ownership permissions are all set correctly and im able to see files get created correctly in the folder so i know the read and write are working as its supposed to. Dont forget im al…

[image] doomngloom: the ownership permissions are all set correctly and im able to see files get created correctly in the folder so i know the read and write are working as its supposed to. You cannot possibly verify that for each and every subfolder and every file in there. There are million…

powershell command get-childitem -recurse > c:\PlexPerm.txt will send it to a file for you to peruse. difficult but not impossible to verify. If the database did get damged like that, wont the service have an issue running it to begin with? it should fail to start as both a service and regular sinc…

Then I am out of ideas, unfortunately.

thanks for trying. maybe someone else out there has an idea.

i will post it there as well. thanks again for your assistance.

Odd plex wont start issue

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OttoKerner November 23, 2018, 6:24pm 10

Maybe someone in here has an idea: PMS as a service

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