Unable to access portable hard drive

Plex Media Server
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My portable hard drive which is plugged into my mac doesn’t show up when trying to add a library? All of movies are stored on this 2TB drive. What are the option for 800GB of movies that I don’t want on my working computer?

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Map a drive to the portable drive. Add the mapped path to your library. I’ve done this in Windows for several years.

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Make sure you DO NOT have automatically delete content enabled.

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You don’t mention what macOS you are using but on the newer ones you have to specify that an application has access to either “Files & Folders” or “Full Disk Access” in the System Preferences/Settings. Plex won’t be able to access your drive until you give it permission from the OS. This may be why you can’t see the drive in Plex.

Good Luck,

Chris

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Thanks Chris! Is this found in Plex? Sorry I am very new to this :slight_smile:

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In the system prefs of your mac.

depends on what version os MacOS you have but you need to give it persmissions for removable drives

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this is MacOS 13 ( i gave it full disk access

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I have the Big Sur 11.7.1

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then it should look like top image in the MacOS system prefs

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This is how mine looks I don’t see Plex at all. I check below Full disk as well

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Oops I don’t see Plex at all in Full disk or Files and Folders

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Then click on the + sign at the bottom of list. In the window that opens navigate to Plex Media Server, which should be in your Applications folder > click open to add it to the list.

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That was it thank you so much!!

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I was going to ask too can I include subtitles for movies?