New User Desperately Needs Help!!

[Squid]

1 hour ago, Mistress_Mistie said:

I have looked all over but I can not seem to find the /data folder Is this something I create and if so, where do I create it. I am on a Windows PC and using the WebGUI to access my sever. 

10:1 You're running the linuxserver version of Plex which does not include any path mappings for media by default (you have to add them all on the template -> add another path).  Might want to watch this for a decent overview of how docker works

 

[Mistress_Mistie]

35 minutes ago, Squid said:

10:1 You're running the linuxserver version of Plex which does not include any path mappings for media by default (you have to add them all on the template -> add another path).  Might want to watch this for a decent overview of how docker wo

 

Ok so this is how one of the guides had me set up Plex

 

Network Type:  Host

 

Console shell command: Shell

 

Privileged: OFF

 

Host Path 2: /tmp/
Container Path: /transcode

 

Host Path 3: /mnt/user/{Media}
Container Path: /data

 

So I would create my folders:

     /Movies  

    /TV Shows

   / Pictures

......under {Media} Folder? 

 

I am not sure how I ended up with two Media files. One is just Media the other {Media}. I added the subfolders using the file browser in Windows, then going to Network and to Tower, clicking the {Media} Folder and added /Movies, /TV Shows, /Music, etc. but Media folder has the same subfolders in it as well. Should one of those be deleted? I added a screenshot of the current folders in "Shares."  I will definitely watch the video guide you posted. Thanks

 

Edited September 5, 2020 by Mistress_Mistie
Added second screenshot

[Squid]

17 minutes ago, Mistress_Mistie said:

So I would create my folders:

     /Movies  

    /TV Shows

   / Pictures

......under {Media} Folder? 

Yes

 

And within Plex when you add a library you're going to be navigating to /data

[trurl]

I strongly recommend not having any user shares with special characters in the name. While not strictly forbidden, it wouldn't be surprising if something somewhere sometime breaks when trying to access {Media}. Move all the files from {Media} into Media and get rid of {Media}.

[Energen]

On 9/5/2020 at 11:12 AM, Mistress_Mistie said:

I have looked all over but I can not seem to find the /data folder Is this something I create and if so, where do I create it. I am on a Windows PC and using the WebGUI to access my sever. 

When you set up the Plex docker, you already configured the data folder.  It's in the Docker template as a container path.

 

 

So your Docker has these paths configured within the container (my example, not your system)

 

So when you're in Plex adding your libraries that you configured with that /data path, you look at these

 

Which gets you this

 

So you probably want to map your /Media share to /data in the docker template basically like how I have mine displayed.

 

Then in Plex you can add any subfolders of your Media share as their own library sources... TV shows would be /data/<TV SHOW PATH>, Movies would be /data/<MOVIE PATH>/, Photos would be /data/<PHOTOS PATH>, etc..

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by Energen