Server Version#: 4.47.3 Hello, I am running PMS on my MacMini which has only 128 GB SSD and the metadata folder is eating up all the space. I would like to move the PMS folder to an external USB drive (which is always connected to the Mac Mini) and found the following post https://forums.plex.t…

Have a read through this article. [image] How To Create Symlinks On Your Mac A symbolic link, often shortened to symlink, is a type of link that is stored at one location on your machine and it points to another location on the same [...]

Thanks. Are you confirming that a symlink will be the solution to my need, i.e. I need to fix the symlink I created ?

Yes and Yes, it’s the only good solution for you other than Thunderbolt External SSD with MacOS installed. Expensive option.

[image] apassio: I need to fix the symlink I created ? Yes. The symlink method should work. Note that it has to be a symlink created in Terminal.app, not a Finder Alias. The USB drive you’re using, was it formatted for the mac? - I don’t think things will behave if it’s a FAT/FAT32/exFAT dri…

Thank you, I managed to create the symlink correctly and everything seems to work. I have renamed the old PMS folder on SSD and kept it for now in case I run into problems with the newly created one on the USB HDD. Thank you again for your support.

[image] Volts: ls -l ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/ Thank you. It seems everything is working ok now. Please see below the results and let me know if anything needs to be corrected. Regards Last login: Sat Jan 2 09:36:31 on ttys000 sondophan@Sons-Mac-mini-Crozet ~ % l…

Your symlink looks OK, and it looks like the new path has all of the necessary stuff in it. Yay! You’ve also got a funny extra symlink, located at /Volumes/Music_Maxtor_USB_4TB/Plex Media Server/Plex Media Server. That’s probably what went wrong the first time. It’s not causing any harm, but it co…

[image] apassio: ls -l ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/ Thanks, is it ok now? sondophan@Sons-Mac-mini-Crozet ~ % ls -l ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/ total 160 drwxr-xr-x 7 sondophan staff 224 Jan 1 20:02 Codecs drwxr-xr-x 23 sondophan staf…

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