I am a Plex pass member. Yesterday I updated my 2017 iMac i7 to MacOS Monterey 12.3. Ever since Plex will not recognize my Seagate external hard drive. The TV, Movie files are recognized by the computer as they play on the computer. When accessing files thru Plex they are unavailable and the Playbac…

Following your suggestion of granting Plex full disk permissions on the System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access > Plex Media Server.app it went back to normal. Thank you so much.

Plex not recognizing external HD files

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Plex not recognizing external HD files

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