Has anyone had success moving their PMS installation to another drive using sym links on macOS? I see that is the recommended way of doing it but when I try it starts having issues and hangs on starting server. My guess is a permission issue but I have not found anything in the logs to point in that direction. Any help is much appreciated.
Where did you read this is the recommended approach?
I’ve been following this support article’s instructions when I moved my media to a new drive / mount-point:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154537-move-media-content-to-a-new-location/
yeah that’s for the media content. I’m trying to move the application files. Link to article below.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/202529153-why-is-my-plex-media-server-directory-so-large/
got it… could you post how you created the symbolic link?
From what I remember, steps should be like this:
- stop Plex
- move the Plex data folder to its target (you can do this using Finder)
- open Terminal
- paste
ln -s ~/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server /Volumes/Target\ Volume/Target\ Folderand execute – I haven’t tested this for some time; you might need to re-name the original~/Application Support/Plex Media Server/folder first (e.g. by adding.oldto it).
If you have indeed issues with the permissions, open the folder on the new drive in Finder and click Show Info. In the section Sharing and Permissions you should be able to ensure your account has read and write permissions.
Edit:
5. after confirming Plex is properly starting using the new data directory you can delete the old one
From what I can tell these are the steps that I took. Under get info, the destination drive does say that I have read and write permissions. The odd thing is that it does not give any other options for permissions. I can’t adjust them at all.
click the lock in the bottom right corner of the info dialog.
once the settings on the folder itself are ok, click the gear-icon (3rd icon from the bottom-left) and apply those settings to all child elements / folders.
Yeah there’s no lock, that’s what I was saying is weird. However, I think I just figured it out. I forgot to format this drive to HFS+ Journaled and it is currently exFAT. I will move some files around and give it another shot after formatting it. I’ll update the thread after. Thanks for your help.
All is well now. That drive being exFAT is what was causing all of the issues. Thanks for the help Tom!
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