# Plex won't start on iMac
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-start-on-imac/742348
**Category:** Plex Media Server
**Tags:** server-mac
**Created:** [September 10, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-start-on-imac/742348 "2021-09-10T22:08:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@AussieRed](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AussieRed)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-start-on-imac/742348/1 "2021-09-10T22:08:52Z")
Server Version#: Unknown as I can’t run it. I installed the latest update yesterday morning.
Player Version#:
I have been running plex on my 2013 iMac (OS Catalina 10.15.17) for several years, suddenly it won’t open. I was in the middle of creating a music playlist of about 500 songs when it crashed and I haven’t been able to reopen it. I have attached the log files.
Any assistance gratefully received.
[Plex Media Server.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/45bRW5vvJBI04darXaJy2muonNu.zip) (1.6 MB)
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-start-on-imac/742348/2 "2021-09-10T23:10:44Z")
From the `Plex Media Server.log`:
```plaintext
Sep 11, 2021 07:49:56.055 [0x700006cf9000] ERROR - SQLITE3:(nil), 11, database corruption at line 68176 of [1b256d97b5]
Sep 11, 2021 07:49:56.055 [0x700006cf9000] ERROR - SQLITE3:(nil), 11, database disk image is malformed in "PRAGMA cache_size=2000"
Sep 11, 2021 07:49:56.055 [0x700006cf9000] ERROR - Database corruption: sqlite3_statement_backend::prepare: database disk image is malformed for SQL: PRAGMA cache_size=2000
```
You can attempt repairing the corruption
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/)
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If that doesn’t work you can try to restore from a database backup (if you have configured your server to automatically create such backups)
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/)
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If you have no such backup or restoring the backup fails, your final option will be to nuke that server and to start over.
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### Author:  [@AussieRed](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AussieRed)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-start-on-imac/742348/3 "2021-09-11T03:19:28Z")
Tom80H, thanks very much. I took the coward’s way out and deleted the database. Server didn’t start initially, even after a reboot. Got it going indirectly, through Drop down menu. Now rebuilding database which will presumably take hours if not days. Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-start-on-imac/742348/4 "2021-12-10T03:20:02Z")
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