Plex deleted hundreds of my movies when I didn't tell it to

[ChuckPa]

I am also sorry for the loss.

It seems this much-needed update came out a few days too late.

Here are the details and how you can prevent it from happening in the future.

Plex Media Server security changes for Synology users

Community Announcement - Synology users - Security update. Server Version#: Plex Media Server 1.15.4.994 and above By popular customer request and to improve the safety of your media, we’ve made a small but visible change to what PMS can do on your NAS by itself. We have removed user plex from the administrators group. This was a holdover from DSM 5.2 when it was required for PMS to run properly on the NAS. Now, with DSM 6 and above, this is no longer required. By doing so we’ve lower…