Hi, I find it frustrating that I cannot easily share with the family the photos we have on the server. If I login as the main user/admin on the web client, I can at least download photos … however, if I try that with my “Family” user I can’t. There is no option in the settings to give that user pe…

Anyone have any comment on this … positive or negative ?

Plex is not meant to be file sharing application is why. and though i understand you are not trying to share hollywood movie files like bittorrent with the rest of the world many people will and it is a proverbial legal “can of worms” we would rather not bother getting involved in right now. ( I am…

Surely is can be constrained to share only on the local network? Photos are the only real requirement as they are static, everything else is streamed to clients as designed …

@BigWheel said: We get that your home movies and photos are not copyrighted and may do something so you can share those in the future but we do not have anything to share at the moment. Actually, this is incorrect. As a photographer who has been dabbling in it for a while now, the maker (photog…

@MikeG6.5 Good answer. Totally agree. Copyright belongs to the photograher … I have no issue with sharing my photos with a plex user I set up … What would work for me is, if there was some way of marking the files that you want to share, i.e put them in a playlist, then marking the playlist for s…

Why can't "normal" users download photos from either client application or web client.

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Why can't "normal" users download photos from either client application or web client.

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