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Plex used to work, but I can't find what I did before reinstalling my OS

Ask Ubuntu Asked by JohnTErskine on November 28, 2021

I’m working on an old HP tower that seems to not like any of the updates being pushed by Ubuntu. So I am still running 16.04. A recent update broke my entire system and I had to reinstall my OS. Since doing that I have not been able to find how I set the permissions for plex to be able to see my media folders.

They are currently split between two drives at the following locations /SharedSpace/Videos & /MyBook/Videos. This all worked last week and now I can’t seem to find instructions that allow plex to access those folders to populate the library.

I also can not find where how to move the plexMD folder from the home directory to a partition that has more space.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the output of my df -h command

Filesystem              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                   388M  6.5M  381M   2% /run
/dev/sda9                20G  2.1G   17G  12% /
/dev/sda6                20G  3.6G   15G  20% /usr
tmpfs                   1.9G   51M  1.9G   3% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                   1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0               89M   89M     0 100% /snap/core/6964
/dev/loop1               90M   90M     0 100% /snap/core/6818
/dev/loop2               89M   89M     0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/13
/dev/sda8                20G  106M   19G   1% /boot
/dev/sda5                20G   13G  5.8G  69% /home
/dev/sdb1               2.8T  2.5T  272G  91% /MyBook
/dev/sda4               1.8T  1.4T  391G  78% /SharedSpace
tmpfs                   388M   44K  388M   1% /run/user/1000
/home/erskine/.Private   20G   13G  5.8G  69% /home/erskine
/dev/sr1                7.7G  7.7G     0 100% /media/erskine/E2938

One Answer

Unfortunately, the snap version of Plex Media Server can have the problem of not being able to read into other folders on the drive due to containment of the application. To solve this, first remove the snap version of Plex

sudo snap remove plexmediaserver

Following this link here add the Plex repository to your system

echo deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list

Add the key

curl https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | sudo apt-key add -

Update the system and install Plex Media Server

sudo apt update
sudo apt install plexmediaserver

If it complains that it is already installed, it would be best to reinstall it

sudo apt install --reinstall plexmediaserver

Run Plex normally. The following link can help with moving the metadata to another location for safe keeping.

https://smyl.es/how-to-move-plex-metadata-and-index-data-to-new-driver-andor-directory-location/

Hope this helps!

Answered by Terrance on November 28, 2021

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