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Doju

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Jun 16, 2008
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Hey guys, Plex has been working phenomenally on my Mac mini used as a home theatre PC.

I recently disconnected my external hard drive (where ALL my Plex media is stored, it's a 1TB) and plugged it into my MBP to take some episodes of House off of and transfer to the drive. Transferred fine, unplugged (ejected et al) and plugged back into mini.

Low and behold, it ceased to work. It connected fine and everything, disk is mounted on my desktop, but Plex does not want to open any videos. I did NOT alter the sources, move any folders or anything. But it says "Error when opening file" whenever I select a video.

Why is this? And when I go to Video it's a blank screen with a small glitchy black box. If I hit back it will go to Videos (the correct version).

I did change preferences slightly, but I doubt anything that would do this. Just turned on like software upscaling, always running and changed resolution a bit, but nothing that should change the viewing of files.

Help?! This is the centre-piece of my whole living room, I want to watch video. :(
 
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