

Mine is showing the “Continue Watching” (waiting for me to finish Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica so I can return to the last ten minutes of Razor. Rejoice!Ĭlick “back” to go from the Plex settings to your library screen, and you should see the library contents you know and love. While writing this guide the interface showed “Stopped” for at least a minute, then finally updated to “Running”. This is another step where actions take longer to complete than you might expect. Now you’re ready to start the media server: If that’s not the case follow the same steps as before to get to them: You might find that you’re taken straight to the settings area you were looking at earlier. Once you see the device listed normally, it should be safe to restart your media server. This is the time when you need to be patient!Ĭheck the status of your device by returning to the Storage settings: plug the USB device back into your SHIELD Pro, preferable the same port you used previously.Īfter a few seconds you should see a message indicating that the device has been detected, and it is quite likely that is will scan the device before making it available to use.# I'm being explicit about the location here but 'cd' on its own works cd $HOMEĮject your USB device Getting Plex Up And Running Again Insert USB Once it’s mounted, open a terminal window and verify where the device was mounted: If you’re in any doubt how to perform this please read the full instructions Plug The USB Device In To A Computer or Laptop As part of my paranoia, and desire to change as little as possible, I make a mental note which USB port I am removing the device from. You can now remove the device and perform the repair process. select your USB device and click to open the menu for it.open the SHIELD Pro’s settings (cog icon in the top-right corner).navigate down to the “Plex Media Server” section.I’m paranoid, and want to do as much as possible to reduce the risk of adding more problems to the mix. If you haven’t already done this, there are instructions online and I’ve had no problems with a SanDisk Ultra Fit 128 GBĪfter a 48-hour period in early 2021 where I would return to the media server and discover that ther USB was flagged as corrupt I replaced the USB stick mentioned above with a standard SanDisk Ultra 128 GBĪfter five months the SanDisk Ultra 128 GB failed I’m now trying the server with a SanDisk Extreme PRO 128 GB Shutdown Cleanly


You must have configured your Plex Media Server to use an external USB drive as the location for the library data.
