Ubuntu 22.04 plexmedia server 'lost' all content

[ChuckPa]

@HiRez_L

which was a cron job I had running every 15 minutes to set the /video dir recursively to 774 root:plugdev,

You should stop that.

PMS is now sensitive to permission changes.

If you’re doing it to set perms for files which aren’t correct, I recommend doing it this way,

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Selectively changing directory and file permissions. PMS 1.31.1 and above monitor your media for file permission changes in addition to media content changes. This was provided so PMS knows when your media acquisition processes (DVR/other tasks) complete and the media is now ready for PMS to use. Unfortunately, a number of our users have a “sledgehammer” approach where they just change all permissions for all media. PMS is now sensitive to ALL permission changes (even for media al…