I occasionally run into the issue where I try to play a file, but after some buffering, I get the message “please make sure the drive is mounted.” The drive with the file is still connected to the server and is accessible through file explorer, so it’s not that the drive is asleep or anything. I usually have to completely uninstall Plex and reinstall it in order to fix this, and it often coincides with the bug where the languages of my libraries are totally blank. I’ve actually started to use Jellyfin most of the time because Plex has become so unreliable. Any ideas as to what’s going on?
Yeah, it’s been a real pain for a while. All my media drives are external WDs connected directly to the laptop running the server over USB 3.0. It’s a fairly beefy Win10 machine with an i7-7700HQ and a GTX 1070M. I’m running it on bare metal and the computer is set up to never suspend\go to sleep. I also disabled the power-saving USB suspend settings, and the drives stay accessible over file explorer and Jellyfin, so it seems like a Plex issue.