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kwhit13
Dec 27, 2016Tutor
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 driv...
- Feb 17, 2017
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.
ElaineM
Feb 16, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
kwhit13 Are you still having problems with your Plex? Make sure that you have the latest Plex version installed by checking the box "Enable Automatic PLEX New Version Update"
kwhit13
Feb 17, 2017Tutor
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.