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R9000 Plex Media Server Problem
I am having problems with setting up plex. I orginally tried to enable Plex with my USB WD My book attached however it never displayed the drive so I figured there was a problem. I removed the drive and attached it to my computer and formatted it with 3 partitions (4TB overall disk space). I reattached it and setup readyshare for each partition and when I go to Plex it says the original USB is no longer connected and to select another USB however just like before, it does not display any USB drives to select. The 3 partitions show on my network to access. I have tried everything I can think of aside from resetting the router to factory settings which I really don't want to do.
Ok, after many conversations with technical support I believe my problems are resolved. The problem it turned out to be the Titles of my partitions I had on my hard drive. If you have an & symbol Plex will not recognize anything (literally one title with the & symbol and Plex will not recognize any hard drives), however, readyshare has no problem with it. I ended up finding this out on my own by reformatting and naming it a basic name and confirmed it when I tested a title with the & symbol. I have been running it now for about 2 weeks and no problems.