Plex Media Server - Synology DSM 7 Preview - Issues ( Archive )

[ChuckPa]

@DanS100
@DirtyFoot

I’m going to suggest to you both that you now upgrade to the new packaging so we can both FIX and CONFIRM current status.

This inability to see what’s happening -or- easily get log files has been another problematic thorn from DSM 7 defaults.

May I suggest:

1. Uninstall + KEEP the current DSM 7 package
2. Now install the package I post here for your machine. Do not be concerned about minor version change. It will be OK.

DSM 7 - Finalized Configuration (PMS 1.24.2.4973) - Release information

DSM 7 - Finalized Configuration (Packaging 2.0) - Release Information See below for updates Since DSM 7.0-41890 finalized, I’ve had time to digest everyone’s input as well as review what we ultimately ended up with in DSM 7.0 Looking at all the issues faced, there was one overriding problem which could not be solved – Plex’s data was not accessible from the GUI or other Synology tools such as Hyper Backup. An important issue for most was the data area could not be moved. It took some t…

3. When complete, we can go peek into the newly created PlexMediaServer shared folder to:
   a. Verify everything is indeed there
   b. Manually gather the log files – which the package installer can also do for you.