Hi there, sorry to have the first thing here be a complaint, I generally love Plex and the possibilities it gives my to have my personal film library at hand all the time. But I’ve now lived through the growing pains of having lost all my metadata and feel this could be preventable quite easily on …

See LocalAppDataPath in this article: https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/

I would also recommend a bare metal recovery backup solution. I use https://www.veeam.com/ with nightly incremental backups. Weekly full backups and about 45 day retention on my backups. This allows both single file level recovery and complete PC crash recovery options.

Feature to have Plex ask where to store metadata right away

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FordGuy61 November 7, 2024, 6:18pm 3

Also [HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows

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Feature to have Plex ask where to store metadata right away

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