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Server Version#:1.32.6
Player Version#:macOS Big Sur
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>
Hey community,
Looking for some help since I can’t figure out how to resolve my issue. Long story short the Plex media server app won’t launch on my iMac. The icon flashes for a second on the top right of the screen and then disappears. Someone said the current version may not be compatible with Big Sur which makes sense. Anyone know how I can re-download the prior version of the server?

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If the Plex Media Server won’t start and doesn’t even get to the stage where it’ll be writing to the server logs, you can attempt the following procedure to see if there’s any error messages on the OS level:

  1. Open Finder and navigate to /Applications
  2. Select Show Content from the context menu of the Plex Media Server.app item
  3. Navigate to Contents/MacOS
  4. Open the Terminal app
  5. Drag the Plex Media Server executable from the Finder window (#3) into the Terminal Window and press Return to execute it

This is no different from running the app, so it won’t succeed – but you should get a more specific error message about what’s causing it to fail starting.

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thank you for your response. I did what you said and got this:
Last login: Fri Oct 27 01:36:11 on console
robeo@Roberts-iMac ~ % /Applications/Plex\ Media\ Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex\ Media\ Server
Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::prepare: database disk image is malformed for SQL: PRAGMA cache_size=2048 (N4soci10soci_errorE)
robeo@Roberts-iMac ~ %

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I would start with https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/ and use GitHub - ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases

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