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Hi,
For the second time, I’ve had to reboot my laptop (Win10).
By doing that, I’ve (again) lost the hours spent setting up my library (covers, titles, etc.).
How can I save somewhere all this work for avoiding new hours doing it again? I’ve done all steps of a “how to do it” found on the web, but clearly it didn’t work.
Can you help me with that, pleaaaaase?
Thank you so much by advance.
Francis
Can you go into more details please.
Simply rebooting your laptop should not cause you to lose anything.
Perhaps I didn’t use the right word. I have reinstalled Windows.
My applications are on drive C: and my movies on D:
Don’t really know where my library is…
When I’ve re-installed Windows, my C: drive was as new, but my D: drive kept unchanged.
Is it more precise?
Still not sure exactly what you did. If you reinstalled Windows and wiped out the old documents and application data then your Plex data is probably gone. Plex does not save posters and other metadata in the location of your media files, it uses its own storage space, like other Windows apps.
If your old Windows install is still on a disk, then your Plex data can probably be restored.
If you wipe drive C:, then you wipe your Plex data with it.
You could move this data to a different drive: [HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows
But even then you should at least make a backup of the Plex server branch of the windows registry, before wiping drive C: again: Backing Up Plex Media Server Data | Plex Support
After getting your Windows up and running again, you double-click this .reg file.
Then you install Plex server.
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