Plex Media Server Won't Open since macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.20.5.3600-47c0d9038
Player Version#:

Since updating my Mac PMS won’t even open. No error messages, nothing. When I run the unix executable this is the message below. Any assistance much appreciated!

Last login: Sun Nov 22 23:18:03 on console

The default interactive shell is now zsh.

To update your account to use zsh, please run chsh -s /bin/zsh.

For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

/Users/ob/Downloads/Plex\ Media\ Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex\ Media\ Server ; exit;

Olivers-iMac:~ ob$ /Users/ob/Downloads/Plex\ Media\ Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex\ Media\ Server ; exit;

Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::prepare: database disk image is malformed for SQL: PRAGMA cache_size=2000 (N4soci10soci_errorE)

logout

Saving session…

…copying shared history…

…saving history…truncating history files…

…completed.

Deleting expired sessions…64 completed.

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I haven’t seen a general issue for that version on macOS (10.15.7, 10.15.x or 11).
From the error message this could be a corrupted database!?

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Thanks Tom. I agree on the database issue. How would I go about fixing that?

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The support article about details how to Repair.

Failing that you will need to Uninstall PMS and start again. Follow exactly the following article.

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Thanks I will give it a go.

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That worked! Complete uninstall following those instructions with a clean install.

Thanks both for prompt help.

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