Hey all, Running into an issue here. Running Plex server on ubuntu. I went ahead and followed instructions to create an override.conf file in the /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d and populated it with: Environment=“TMPDIR=/TranscoderCache” Environment=“PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_S…

[image] Media_Server_New_York: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf:1: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring. Please show the exact contents of override.cong Paste it inside ``` paste here ``` It will look like: paste here whcih is super easy to read

Environment=“TMPDIR=/home/plex/TranscoderCache” Environment=“PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/home/plex/MetaData”

That is the entire contents of the override.conf file

You forgot [Service] As line 1 Then do systemctl daemon-reload [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems This information is intended for those systems where cat /proc/1/comm returns systemd. On systems whic…

[image] ChuckPa: systemctl daemon-reload Hey ChuckPa, I did try this before, unfortunately when adding that line to the override.conf the server refuses to start back up. See Below---------------------------- ● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/syste…

[image] Media_Server_New_York: Environment=“TMPDIR=/home/plex/TranscoderCache” After you moved the data, did you remember to make user plex:plex the chown -R ? I use TMP environment variable and not TMPDIR but that shouldn’t matter.

Thank you, that seems to fix the issue with the server failing to start. now it is starting and there is no error given about the override.conf file. ● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc…

May I have the logs ZIP file please ? Also, are you wanting to move the entire temp dir or just the transcoder temp dir (which you set in settings → server - Transcoder → show advanced)

Plex Media Server Logs_2023-05-10_21-16-40.zip (624.9 KB) Here you go. The goal of both these settings is to have my ubuntu image (VM hosted on TrueNas Scale) to be lean and not blow up. Having these directories outside of the VM will make it easier to manage when more and more videos are added to …

[image] Here are the mounted directories showing up on the server as well

Question on moving Metadata/Video Previews (and Transcode) folder from default to separate folder

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ChuckPa May 10, 2023, 10:07am 5

You forgot

[Service]

As line 1

Then do systemctl daemon-reload

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