# Plex Media Deleted Media without authorization **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-deleted-media-without-authorization/680577 "2021-01-20T18:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-deleted-media-without-authorization/680577/9 "2021-01-22T00:12:05Z")
That’s a “NOT Cool” move. What you did was to place your media inside Plex’s internal area. Everything under `/var/lib/plexmediaserver` is owned by `plex:plex` for a reason. Its cleanup (butler task) ran and, because your files were foreign / unknown, wooosh. It only succeeded because the files were owned by `plex:plex` or had 777/666 permissions, right? To avoid this happening again: 1. Make mount point directories somewhere out under root which don’t conflict with anything. How about `/nas` ? 2. Create subdirectories for each library section you intend to have Plex index. 3. Mount the media there 4. Set the permissions (i use `sec=sys` on the NFS mount option) such that the NAS is a “big HDD” for the workstation) to the classic 755/644 and yourself as the owner. My NAS is named ‘Vienna’ so the mount point is `/vie` The shared folders are mounted this way > #movies > 192.168.0.21:/movies /vie/movies nfs sec=sys,intr,rw,vers=4,timeo=15,rsize=2097152,wsize=2097152,auto,async,x-systemd.after=network-online.target,nofail,bg 0 0 This gives me what you see here: ```auto [chuck@lizum ~/dsm7.505]$ cd /vie/movies [chuck@lizum movies.506]$ ls -la total 1397052 drwxr-xr-x 262 chuck chuck 16384 Dec 31 11:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 49 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 8 01:31 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 249 Sep 13 2015 addeleted drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 3 2020 After Earth (2013)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 3 2020 After the Dark (2014)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Dec 16 03:36 Allegiant (2016)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Dec 16 17:42 Ant-Man (2015)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Oct 6 2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 3 2020 Argo (2012)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 3 2020 Atlas Shrugged II The Strike (2012)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 3 2020 Atlas Shrugged Part I (2011)/ drwsr-sr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 3 2020 Atlas Shrugged Part III Who is John Galt (2014)/ ``` Make sense? Plex’s autopilot works really nice but because it’s Linux we don’t have anything to prevent us from executing CFIT 🤣 I have created a “Linux How-To” which is a collection of best practices & tips. In it, I suggest ways of doing things then follow through with functional examples. > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247): > > Tips & Tricks of the Linux trade. Below, you’ll find a collection of tips, tricks, and how-to’s to help make setting up, administrating, and using Plex Media Server on Linux a little easier. [Reporting problems](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/20)[Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2)[Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/3)[Using other EXT4, NTFS, or other drives (internal or USB)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2)[Mounting CIFS + SMB network shares for Plex use](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/4)[Mounting NFS network shares for Plex use](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/5)[Moving…](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/6) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-deleted-media-without-authorization/680577)._