I am mainly looking for Answers that suggest solutions to get the auto-updater working, rather than me manually downloading and installing the update from the Plex website. Logs are available, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for. Within the library, click on the circular arrow icon in the upper right corner. On the main page, select one of your libraries from the left hand navigation pane, as seen below, like your TV Shows library. Plex forum topics are shut down after 90 days of inactivity, and I cannot find any actual solution or explanations for this Plex Updater failure. To manually update your Plex library, log into the web control panel for your Plex Media Server. Users of Plex Media Server gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Plex Media Server runs on the following operating systems: Windows. It was initially added to our database on. This seems to be a common issue, discussed often on the Plex forums: The latest version of Plex Media Server is 1., released on. In my case the bad update is Version 1., but this seems to be a recurring issue for multiple other versions as well. Very annoying to try to watch media only to find that the Plex server is not running. The automatic update feature is hitting this same problem, and thus regularly quits my Plex server and never restarts it. It alerts me again to 'Download Updates' and 'Install Update' - but the update never works.

When I manually open Plex again, it boots up immediately as if nothing happened.

The server 'Plex' is installing an update

Plex immediately quits, and the spinner says that the update is installing: I want to update Plex via the 'Install Update' button within General settings:

Latest plex media server update