Corrupt Plex Database can not be fixed

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Hello,
I have been using Plex for 5 years now and it mostly worked fine. Since The Metadata Folder was pretty big, I moved it to another location a year ago. This also worked fine.

Now I wanted to get a bigger C:// Harddrive and mirrored the old one to the new one. All the Database and Appdata files of Plex were untouched, since they both were on D://

But unfortunately I can not start the Plex Media Server anymore. Whenever I try, it says:
“Corrupt Database: Plex Media Server was unable to open its media Database.”

So I tried these instructions: Repair a Corrupted Database | Plex Support
First the automatic instructions (Which created a 244 GB recover.out file

Since after that Plex could still not be restarted, I tried the manual steps too. After that I still can not Start the Server.

When I check

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex SQLite.exe" com.plexapp.plugins.library.db "PRAGMA integrity_check"

it shows me “ok” now, but it still does not work.

What can I do? How can I fix this? Should/can I move the Plex Appdata folder back in this state?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help. I am very frustrated right now and scared that my database will be lost, so any help is appreciated.

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Check the registry to make sure the appdata folder is referenced to the correct location.

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It is referenced to the correct location. But it still did not work.
instead i fixed it by restoring a backup. Now I will try to move the Plex Data back to the original AppData folder and I hope it works fine.
Thanks for your support!

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