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I have rebuilt both my 5.1 mac pro with Mojave and reinstalled plex multiple times and the server settings were always unavailable - the plex docs were useless and did not apply. finally after hours of searching I found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/yg5ky3/server_settings_are_unavailable_on_mac_pro_51/ - downgraded and the server now works - totally lame plex - fix this FFS.
Plex Media Server completely broken for 5.1 mac pro Mojave since version 1-29-0-6244 (Don't Upgrade)
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Same environment (5.1 mac pro Mojave). PMS 1.30.x (latest) does not start up at all. Replaced with 1.29.0.x as per the reddit link. Still does not start up at all. Anyone else in this situation?
Same issue here. Horrific on behalf of Plex - this issue has now been occurring across multiple version of the PMS for the majority of people running Mojave and there’s been little move to fix it or even notify people that this is a known error. I went through so many attempts at wiping and reinstalling PMS and ended up just not using Plex for a month or two until I finally came across this thread and posts from Nibbles, similar as the reddit post above. Following these steps and installing 1.29 appears to have resolved the issue. Server settings are unavailable after last update. MacOS - #50 by nibbles
Please Plex fix this or at least inform customers who are using Mojave. Current releases do Not Support Mojave and shouldn’t be advertised as they do.
Fixed in the latest beta, and the fix will be available to regular users like yourself in the next stable version release. That usually happens one a month or every other month depending on how stable it is. Hang in there a bit more if you can.
This is a follow-up from my first post - and after reading the responses both from users and Plex (nibbles). For the money, a 2009-2012 Mac Pro 5.1 ‘cheese grater’ makes an awesome plex server - mine is upgraded as far as possible with 12 3.56 GHZ CPU 128 GB RAM and four internal 18TB HDD in a raid config (it works around the world and is a stellar streaming beast) - I have it holding my entire bluray/dvd/cd collection many thousands of titles. Now the highest version of Mac OS that you can run on that machine is macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and I have spent countless hours ripping my collection. How do you think it felt when my plex server auto-updated and broke (how would you like it if you took your car for a software update and it quit working while driving it)? Again as far as I know right now a 5,1 Mac Pro on Mojave 10.14.6 running Plex Server can not upgrade beyond plex-media-server-1-29-0-6244. It is unbelievable that your product managers would let an upgrade to PMS like that pass and completely break a fully functional system. Please at least put together a supported OS page that users can search and reference that matches all versions of the plex media server (especially the latest), like audio interface gear makers do to inform users of the supported OSs so they don’t upgrade and render their systems useless (at the very least such a reference should come with Plex Pass). So Plex users with so much invested in their media libraries and hardware/software systems don’t inadvertently break their systems because of this kind of careless development. No one who uses and supports Plex should have to experience this.
I found there was no easy way to remove all the cruft from the previous PMS install (the lack of a cache and config/files cleanup tool is another drawback of Plex and is dearly needed). I had to completely rebuild and do a fresh install of Mojave on my Mac Pro and then reinstall the right version of PMS to get it to work. Luckily my media RAID is separate from my OS disk. Good luck - I feel your pain.
Can you directly point to the latest Plex install version that supports Mojave on Mac Pro 2009-2012?
Apparently not - seems like the point was missed (again) https://www.plex.tv/careers/ - ironic yes - value-add no. I only posted this because this topic will close in three months from the last post date and no response - maybe a VSB issue? Who knows - Trust and confidence in Plex (not much). Does this matter - yes since there are LOTS of cheesegraters out there.
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