


Plex is designed to run in fullscreen on the living room TV, but works well in windowed mode on your computer. It plays pretty much every media file you can throw at it. Originally an XBox media player, Plex² has grown to be a sleek looking and feature rich Media Center application. 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. Plex is a port of XBox Media Center for the Mac OS X platform. Logs are available, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for.

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. This seems to be a common issue, discussed often on the Plex forums: 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:
