Plexi Server can not add extern hdd folders

[magnwik]

Mac mini with extern hdd WD.
Then I try to connect the library, Plex only finds the
drive, but not the folders.

/Media
/Movies

What do I miss here?

[tom80H]

Do you see the folders when you access the NAS drive through /Volumes/ on your Mac?

[magnwik]

Yes.
The name of the extern drive is Plex Media.
And then nothing more.

[magnwik]

It is in Swedish language as I have swedish Plex.

[tom80H]

I’m just a bit surprised about the path your volume has inside Plex:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Plex Media

I might be wrong but that looks like a /Volumes folder on your local HDD/SSD. Shouldn’t that simply be /Volumes/Plex Media instead?

[magnwik]

As You see, the folders “Filmer”,Filmer 8mm"…does not appear…

[tom80H]

On the last Plex screenshot in your previous post… can you scroll up?

@magnwik

There should be at least an option to go “back” – even if Plex cannot see any content in your folder.

[tom80H]

That’s beautiful screenshots
For the moment I’m mostly interested in how that looks for /Volumes/Plex Media/ while being scrolled to the top of the dialog.

[magnwik]

Their is no [ Back] in the top, only the ones in the screenshots.

Then I tested Plex Server for the first time, I did put some movies in the Movie folder on the intern hdd, and that worked fine.

[tom80H]

I wonder why you keep dragging in those volumes from all over the place. Even though they should be technically pointing to the same physical files/folders… you shouldn’t need to access /System/ to access your files.

On what version of macOS have you installed this Plex Media Server?

[magnwik]

Mac OS 10.15.7

Could it be something in Preference ?

[tom80H]

The server settings shouldn’t interfere with how your OS presents files to Plex.

Just to recap:

• Your WD NAS is mounted as /Volumes/Plex Media/ and you can see the media from within Finder.
• When you navigate to /Volumes/Plex Media/ in Plex, the folder shows no content (ignoring how it looks under different paths).

I take it the NAS is running and macOS isn’t just showing the folders from when it last accessed the files?

[magnwik]

/Volumes/Plex Media

• that’s all, no [ Back]

[magnwik]

1. Correct.
2. Nothing

“I take it the NAS is running and macOS isn’t just showing the folders from when it last accessed the files?” I not sure I understand You correct… I just connected the WD extern hdd to the iMac Mini.

[magnwik]

[SE56]

Have you given the External drive Permission.

[magnwik]

Great! At last! I didn’t know that…
Now it works!

Many many thanks!

Is WD Drive Utilities something for me?