How do I delete everything and start over fresh?

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I’d like to delete everything on my Plex account and start over as if I had just signed-up. Start with a clean slate and set everything up again. I have a little better understand on what to do at this point to try to set things up at least so there aren’t 3 different servers.

I think I know how to set it up now so that I just set up one server and then point

Movies
Music
TV

to the appropriate drives. Instead of having one server that has movies and another server that has music. I think I made a mistake when I did that cause I don’t think that is the idea of Plex here. I think however that I have to have a separate server just for files that are on my My Cloud Home drive… but otherwise I think it’s supposed to be one server and then point each catagory to the appropriate drive.

I’m guessing it might be easier to just start from scratch and set everything up all over again than figure out how to change it.

Thanks in advance.

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Your account has nothing to do with it.
Don’t delete it!

Simply shut down Plex server on all the devices where you don’t want it.

On the remaining server, remove the libraries and recreate them afterwards.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289286-deleting-libraries/

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A more extreme method is to exit plex server and delete the database.

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Hello,

Thanks for the reply. I maybe misspoke then. I’m not trying to delete my account… but revert back to as it was when I first signed up. Blank slate. So I can start adding my libraries over again and make sure things are set-up correctly. Hope that makes more sense.

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See the second part of my initial response above.

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Thanks… I guess I should ask how do I delete the servers?

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Do only delete servers which are no longer installed.
Do never delete servers which are still in use, or you’ll be inconvenienced.

https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/settings/devices/pms

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Well the problem is that I have 3 servers. But I only would need one. If I am understanding this correctly. The server is essentially the table and I set the table by pointing the different categories of media to different folders. Correct?

Server 1
Movies - Folder A, Folder B
TV - Folder C
Music - Folder D
Photos - Folder E

What I am using is
1 WD My Cloud (Movies)
1 WD My Cloud (TV)
1 WD My Cloud Mirror (Music)
1 WD My Cloud Home (Movies)

but as I understand it, the My Cloud Home has to be set up as a separate server to interact with Plex properly since the Plex app is built in to the drive itself and acts as it’s own server. Additionally…the My Cloud Mirror has the Plex app built in and can act as its own server too. But I don’t NEED to set up its own server like I do for the My Cloud Home.

So in fact I would need 2 servers

Server 1
Movies - Folder A
TV - Folder C
Music - Folder D
Photos - Folder E

Server 2 (My Cloud Home)
Movies (Folder B)
TV - None
Music - None
Photos - None

Again… this is just how I understand it. I’m just trying to set it up properly so I can have things put together a little more coherently.

Right now I have these 3 servers that are

Server 1
Movies - Folder A
TV - Folder C
Music - Folder D
Photos - Folder E

Server 2 (My Cloud Home)
Movies - Folder B
TV - None
Music - None
Photos - None

Server 3 (My Cloud Mirror)
Movies - None
TV - None
Music - Folder D
Photos - None

Right now when I am remote the server for the Movies and TV always gives me an error because I don’t have my computer turned on at home. I understand that is what is going to happen. The My Cloud Mirror server will work most of the time and the My Cloud Home server works just fine. When I first set up my Plex with these particular drives I thought that each drive had to be its own server. I now see that you essentially should just have one server and point each category to whatever folders are where containing that particular media.

So really I guess what I need to do is find out how - if recommended - to get the My Cloud Mirror drive that is holding the music set up on the Server 1 and then I can delete Server 3 since it would be redundant. If these steps were taken though… would the music then show up even though the rest of the drives were offline and essentially my server is offline if I don’t have my computer turned on at home?

Once more… this is just how I understand it. If I am wrong I’m happy for any help to get my setup in the right direction. Sorry for my ignorance. I was iffy when signing up for Plex at first because I thought it was on a different level than I am technologically. But then I realized it probably is pretty easy to set up and I am just overthinking it… but maybe I was righ that it is a little too far out of my league.

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I am no expert for the WD MyCloud devices.
But as I understand it, if you are running a Plex server install directly on these, you cannot tell them to use storage on another NAS device as media source.

So integrating all media under a common plex server won’t be possible.

For that, you’d need a PC or a Mac (even one of the more powerful NAS device types would work, like QNAP or Synology).
The limiting factor here is the operating system on those WD NAS’s, They are using Android, where the user doesn’t have access to the data storage and the advanced system settings.
So there is no way to “mount” remote storage, like you can do in Windows, Linux or MacOS.

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So it sounds like based on what you are saying is that everything is set up correctly?

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For now, yes.
You could try to set up a Mac or Windows or Linux box to act as your sole, central Plex server.
It should be powerful enough to handle transcoding but on the other hand be not too power-hungry.
This would allow you to “mount” the storage space of all your other NAS devices and then connect them to the various library types of this one, central server.

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Are there any easy to understand articles on doing that? I joined one of the Plex groups (the only one I could find) on FB and probably 98 out of 100 posts are way way way over my head to the point that I’m wondering if I am even in a group about Plex! Ha!

Thanks for the continued dialogue on this matter.

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Here is a guide how to do it on Windows.

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Thanks for that information.

Not to get ahead of myself here…or maybe even behind myself - ha! - but each of these particular drives are mounted…if I am using that term correctly… on the same computer I have the Plex software/server installed on. They each have drive letters assigned to them.

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Then you should be good to go to try it.
But you might want to update the plex server software version on your Windows box.

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Alrighty…I’ll see how it works out and report back here.

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I have several WD MyCloud drives and use a PC and a Nvidia Shield as PMS to access the media on the different drives. You could run it all on 1 server if you like or multiple. On the PC I have it pointed to a drive letter, for Nvidia Shield I point it to the directory itself. If you have any issues, I’ll be happy to help out.

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It’s TRUE formatting your computer reinstalling setting up everything from scratch is more beneficial than deleting your online plex account

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