Restoring library after computer crash

[ChuckPa]

Do you know the old path?

You can always tell Linux where to mount the USB drive.

If PMS is expecting it there, then once you make the mount permanent, it will find it again.

Alternatively, you can effectively “move” the path reference without losing anything. It takes a few steps but does work.

Linux Tips

Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …

In that Linux Tips category, you’ll find several other how-to’s