I used to store all my plex application data on a HDD in f:\plexappddata, but the directory grew so large (250GB+), and it was impacting Plex performance, so I purchased a 500GB SSD and mounted it as E:. I shutdown Plex, and copied all the files from F:\PlexAppData to E:\PlexAppData. Then I restarted Plex, and using the Web interface, changed the setting in the Server settings ui from F:\PlexAppData to E:\PlexAppData. Next I rebooted my PC, and restarted plex. Everything is good, except Plex is still creating logs in F:\PlexAppData\Plex Media Server\Logs, specifically it created “Plex Update Service.log” in the F:\PlexAppData location.
How do I change the path to these logs to use the new E:\PlexAppData location?
It is only the update service that sticks to using the old location - that should be minimal usage and should be ok to leave it as it is. All other logs will be on the E drive path
If you, however, want to get rid of the F Drive then we need to do a registry edit to the SYSTEM user account registry area to change it,
It is a known issue with the update service and has been raised
I located two entries that needed to be changed here: Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4152858235-3401454975-1572224542-1004\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server
Search for “ButlerDatabaseBackupPath” and “LocalAppDataPath”
I don’t mean to necro this thread but I’m having the same problem and the fixes aren’t working. It’s still creating the old folders on the old drive and both entries have been updated in plex settings and the registry. I can’t delete the folders whilst plex update service is running and even deleting and restarting with it stopped it remakes them each time I restart the pc.
As far as the logs folder, I haven’t found a fix for that because it seems as though you’re stuck with that in the default install directory. Not really a big deal since the logs don’t take up much space.
The plug-in support folder can be changed in the server settings->scheduled tasks->backup directory path. Just replace the old path with the new one and leave the end the same. So mine is now “D:\plexdata\Plex Media Server\Plug-in Support/Databases/” from the old path.
That is not correct. You don’t change the location of the whole Plug-in Support folder there.
You are merely telling Plex to put the backup copies of the main database file to a different place. All the other files in Plug-in Support are staying where they are.
