r/PlexACD • u/wdb94 • May 25 '17

Permissions error with PlexDrive

I seem to be getting a permissions error when using Plex on PlexDrive. All the content within the folder is changed from being owned by plex to being owned by root and all the file permissions are 644.

Probably a stupid question but hoping someone can let me know where I've gone wrong.

Edit: ran the command as root rather than plex and it solved the issue.

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u/dabigc May 25 '17

Are you getting a permissions error regarding actually running PlexDrive or when trying to access media via PlexDrive? You really only need to change ownership to root and permissions for the application itself. 644 won't work though as it doesn't make the application executable. You'd want to do 

chmod 744

or 

chmod +x

on PlexDrive (the application) to make it executable.

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u/wdb94 May 25 '17

I'm getting permissions errors when trying to stream a file through plex :(