I am in the middle of migrating my install to another system. During the migration process I made a backup of my Plex Media Server data directory from my source machine and have already unpacked everything on my destination machine. It then occurred to me that I forgot to disable “Empty trash automatically after every scan” on my library. I have now retroactively done so but I am unsure whether the old preference will be passed with the backed up data or if it tied to my Plex account. Can anyone let me know?
It is a server setting, not one of the account.
So you’re saying it will be passed with the backup? If so, is there a way I can change the preference somewhere in those files themselves rather than redoing the full backup process?
AFAIK you only need to pull the main DB file again.
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Thank you
Upon further research, it is a flag located in Preferences.xml named autoEmptyTrash (the variable isn’t even written to the file when on the default of value of 1). Adding autoEmptyTrash=“0” will disable it.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/#toc-1
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