Currently when items are converted for Sync they are stored in ‘/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sync+’. Is there anyway for me to change this folder so I can store my Sync’d/converted files in a different directory? The ‘Transcoder temporary d…

The easiest way on linux I found was to simply symlink the folder elsewhere. Doing that I was able to move mine to my zpool which as a lot more room than my OS drive.

Ahhh! That seems simple enough! I’ll give that a try. Thanks EDIT: Works perfectly! Thanks!

Hello, I’ve been trying for hours many diferent ways but still not working for me. Did you use fstab to mount the symlink ? which command did you use ? mount --bind ? I’m unable to make it work, seems like the path is too long for “/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Medi…

can someone dumb down how to change the sync directory? currently it wants to use my boot drive which is only a 120gb ssd would like to make it my drive I: or e: which are 14tb and 10tb so would have much more room. I changed the transcode location to d: which is a 500gb SSD but can’t figure out how…

L: D: , etc are for Windows, --bind is for Linux. Afraid you’s asking in the wrong area. I’m sorry. Please create a new topic and tag it ‘server-windows’

Change Plex Media Server cache directory used for Sync

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Change Plex Media Server cache directory used for Sync

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