Hey everyone. I am a super long time Plex user and for some reason in the past week all of my media has become unavailable. I run the server on a Mac Mini and store the media on a Synology RackStation. Has been rock solid for the past couple of years. I updated the server, signed in and out of both the server and the clients. I can see all of my library but nothing is playable. Just wondering what to do next. TIA
Ok I have no idea what I did or why it worked but when I went in to Finder on the Mac Mini and opened up the share it seems to have fixed everything. I guess I will see how long this lasts.
Was the Rackstation on when you started up Plex on the Mac? After a power outage, I find my Plex server (standalone Ubuntu box, Docker Plex server) and my Synology NAS (Media server) racing eachother to start up. About half the time, my Plex server will boot up and attempt to map a folder on the NAS for the media, but I THINK that if the NAS isn’t up yet, it fails. The only symptom I see is when I attempt to play the media, it fails claiming the media is “unavailable” or some such. All I can do is to remap the drive again (actually, all I know is to just reboot the machine).
Since it fixed it for your Mac, I think it’s the same thing. The share was not mapped until you accessed it on the MAC, at which point the server can see it.
Yep that’s exactly what happened. It was after a power outage. I have the Rackstation set up to automount on startup of the Mac but it didn’t work. It was just weird as I could see it in Finder but it didn’t fix until I actually opened up the share.
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