Use an external disk to upload the movies

[westkenny55_icloud_com]

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Hi, I have a small problem, I just switched to Ubuntu Linux (I had my server mounted on Windows) and I would like to know how I can upload my multimedia content from an external hard drive, I saw that the options are similar, but when trying opening the directories of my external drive does not let me, I would like help please …

[grhiner]

You have to assure the plex account has read or read/write permissions on you path and folders. See: Linux Permissions Guide | Plex Support

[ChuckPa]

If I may add?

1. If you want to keep the media on the external drive, given that it’s a USB drive and subject to Linux automounter rules, is as shown below because PMS does not like the media moving around/disappearing.

Using EXT, NTFS, or other format drives (internal or external) on Linux

This document is of primary interest to anyone who has connected USB drives or has media on other internal drives but user plex can’t access it due to Linux’s default security mechanisms. WARNING: This procedure will not work for SNAP, Docker or other container mechanisms unless expressly handled within the confines of the container. This procedure is intended for use with the dpkg package. We will walk through the steps needed to add these external USB hard drives and internal hard drives…

2. If you are copying the media from external to something internal or into a NAS, you only need be concerned with the final permission values. The best permissions are 755 (directories) and 644 (files) because you retain RW(x) as owner and PMS has R/O.