New to this platform. Setup PMS and everything seemed to be working fine. Then when I logged into the server tonight everything was gone. The only thing in my library now, where my movies were is a bunch of pictures with source code in them. Tried uninstalling then re-installing the Plex Server, but…

tom@tom-XPS-8300:~$ ls -la /home | grep tom drwxr-xr-x 32 tom tom 4096 Dec 16 10:57 tom tom@tom-XPS-8300:~$ ls -la /home/tom/Elements ls: cannot access '/home/tom/Elements': No such file or directory tom@tom-XPS-8300:~$ sudo mount | grep -i elements [sudo] password for tom: /dev/sdc1 on …

ChuckPa, Just wondering why I haven’t received a reply. I am still having problems. Did you get my last response to your reply? Thanks for your help!

I occasionally don’t get notifications for things I should here in the forum If you ever need to get someone’s attention you can tag them by adding the @ symbol before their screen name @cbudd7

[image] cbudd7: /media/tom/Elements @cbudd7 We meed to do some editing of your /etc/fstab to get the WD out from underneath /media/tom . The Linux automounter (/media/YourUsername/–stuff–) make everything exclusive access to you only. PMS will never see anything there (Linux is strict …

@ChuckPa I am very comfortable at the Linux terminal window. Just let me know specifically what you would like me to do. Thank you!

Give a read here. The goal is to mount the drive somewhere other than /media/yourname [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is …

@ChuckPa <pre>tom@tom-XPS-8300:~$ df df: /run/user/1000/doc: Operation not permitted Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 2985748 0 2985748 0% /dev tmpfs 606…

You skipped a bunch of steps AND your fancy output is screwing everything up so it can’t be read easily you didn’t unmount /media/tom/Elements and then remount it at the new location Consider, in a NON-fancied terminal window session [chuck@lizum Databases.2009]$ df Filesystem 1M-blocks…

@ChuckPa Sorry for the confusion. I didn’t skip the other steps, I stopped because I was getting confused. Also when I copied the info from my screen & pasted it here, I did use the the </>, but for some reason it didn’t come out right. I tried it 3 different times and it came out the same each tim…

Try this. Lets get the blkid again sudo blkid /dev/sdc1 Now, here’s how to COPY and then PASTE the console output so I can see it – You highlight the text. – On Windows machines – hit Enter – On Linux machines – Right-Click COPY Now type this way – A line of 3 grave (key left of the …

Plex Media Server Not Recognizing My Movies

Plex Media Server

ChuckPa December 29, 2022, 11:35pm 17

Give a read here.

The goal is to mount the drive somewhere other than /media/yourname

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Plex Media Server Not Recognizing My Movies

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