I accidentally unplugged my external hard drives power supply. That was the hard drive connected to my shield for the Plex media server. I immediately plugged it back in. And now even tho I can successfully connect to the server from my pc my Plex app no longer can find my content. I rebooted the shield and didn’t fix it. I even tried the ip address/32400 and it just times out and says failed taking too long to respond… what can I do? Thanks
So after researching it seems common and yet power outages people have to setup there server from scratch. Wow is this really true?
A power outage can damage the Plex database. The Shield seems to be especially touchy about this so those were probably the posts you saw. If that happens, then yes, sometimes you have to start over
If you just disconnected the drive and the Shield never lost power, I would bet that’s not your problem
If you can connect to the server from your pc go into the settings and look under library → Empty trash automatically after every scan
If this was enabled your library content may have been deleted from Plex when the drive got disconnected
