One of the problems I found early on with working from home is that my home office is usually setup for my personal computer and switching cords between my work PC and my personal PC became quite a chore and now that I’ve solved this problem for myself I thought it would be good to share with others how I did it…
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It’s October and in Upstate NY that means cold air, colorful leaves, hot cider, pumpkin spice, & Horror Movies.
And 7 things you can do about it.

Plex Tip #1 – Organizing separate Editions of the same movie
So lets say you’re celebrating May 4th properly (May the 4th be with you) and you decide to add Harmy’s Despecialized Edition of the original Star Wars trilogy to your Plex Movie collection.
However you already have the Original Star Wars, from VHS, DVD or Bluray, in your collection and you want to keep it and display them separately.
Thankfully Plex, as always it seems, has a solution.
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In an OwnCloud server if you change the permissions of an external drive to give r/w access (in my case chgrp www-data) and OwnCloud isn’t updating those permissions you can do this. In your MySQL database find your external storage in oc_storages and make note of the numeric id. Then run this query “Delete from oc_filecache where storage = numeric_id” replacing numeric_id with the one you found in the oc_storages table.
My Setup:
Ubuntu 14.04 Server
OwnCloud 7.0.2
MySQL 5.5.38
Apache 2.4.7