Introduction We’ve made a change which will make administering PMS easier on QNAP systems without interfering with QNAP’s philosophy and functionality in any way. This functionality is available as of PMS 1.19.5 and higher versions. Primary goals were: Ability to backup and restore your Plex ins…

Mitigation is simple. Control Panel - Shared Folders If there is an existing PlexData share - Remove it Create the share anywhere you like it with permissions appropriate to your use. Now restart Plex.

Brill, sorted now :slight_smile:

Why do you always worsen everything? If things are going well then please leave it like this. Before the last update, everything worked fine for me and now nothing works anymore and I am constantly disconnected, files are not found although everything is present. The Plex Share network folder is not…

What a mockery. Why should I go to the Plex Forum and look around? Only when the new version caused the problems did I read something about a Plex Forum in my NAS bug report. Only when the bug happened and the crappy new version was installed. I have a Plex Life Time subscription (which I regret by …

[image] RoSe83: The Plex Share network folder is not visible in FileStation in the Explorer view and I have no access to the folder or can create another folder as PlexData. Are you saying, that you can’t create a new share empty named PlexData ? Ref: https://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.3/cat2/en/in…

Hey there, I just wanted to express my sincere gratitude for your efforts here. I’ve personally just acquired a new QNAP TS-453D and intend on syncing my Plex movies and television shows from an older TS-451. The idea would be to retain all my collections and metadata, and to have Plex running on bo…

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, it is my intent to provide easy access to obtain log files and effect database repairs when things break as well as backup , restore, and/or clone from one machine to another easier on QNAP systems by providing access to the QPKG storage area through FileStation (w…

Honestly a How-To with screenshots would be awesome.

I followed these simple four steps. I now have a PMS folder in my PlexData folder on my QNAP, and I can access it via FileStation but Plex will no longer recognise my server. Do I roll back? HELP!

Rebooting the server sems to have sorted it out.

PlexData share for QNAP systems

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