I am trying to make a plex server on my raspberry pi (Running Respbian) and I got it all set up, but when I accessed it from another computer through “Pi’s IP”:32400/web it all worked fine until I tried to add libraries, It see’s the flash drive but says there’s nothing on it and when I tell it to make the flash drive a library it scans the drive and says there’s nothing on it. I have the latest version the plex installed. And I’m pretty sure my naming conventions are fine, but for some the files just won’t show up! What’s wrong?
Linux file permissions. Please read the following guide to learn how to successfully grant PMS Linux user plex access your your USB drive:
Is it just me or is this over complicated and not make any sense?
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It’s Linux 101. Nothing fancy, just the basics.
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Then can you simplify this for me? I have no intentions on using the internal sd card for storing media and my flash drive is using Fat32
I followed this tutorial here: [link removed by mod] I though that when I entered “sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver.prev” and changed the user name from plex to pi that would fix it. Is there a reason this dosn’t work?
This “guide” is still helplessly broken and editing that particular backup file does nothing. Moreover, really changing the user of PMS to pi also won’t work very well. Your drives will get unmounted when you leave the Desktop Environment and PMS would still be unable to access your files.
Just follow the above guide I linked to. It’s very easy, despite all the text 
Btw: I will remove the link to the infamous guide form your post for various reasons (e.g. SEO).
Edit: Don’t use FAT32 for your flash drive 
I suspect you will only use it with your RPi so format it either as ext4 or at least NTFS.
It can’t be NTFS or the rasppberry pi can only read the drive and sometimes fails at that because NTFS is designed for windows and the raspberry pi is linux
Nope. NTFS is supported quite well by Linux. It’s an option if you still need to access the drive in Windows. But, of course, you should prefer a Linux file system like ext4.
Maybe on normal Linux operating systems but Respbian does not handle it well, I wondered for a great while why my other flash drive was having so many issues
Just wanted to say thanks for linking that. I was having big problems getting Plex to see in my media drive and this didn’t only do the trick, but taught me some stuff too 
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