How do I launch Plex without launching the video that makes it crash?

Plex Players
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v1.50.1 video player has issues on Apple M1 and can’t play one of my videos. It causes Plex to lock up.

Worse, when I force quit and relaunch Plex, the app wants to conveniently begin where I left off… trying to open a video it can’t play, so it immediately locks up. (If I let it keep trying, it just runs my Mac out of application memory.)

So… how do I open Plex without opening the video?

Bonus - is there any way to revert to the v1.41 player? It would save me a ton of grief.

Best,
R

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I’m on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on an Intel Mac but here’s the folder of Plex stuff I nuke to fix this problem:

Hard Disk > Users > yourUserName > Library > Application Support > Plex

The way I get there is to open a window in the Finder, go to the Go menu in the menu bar, hold down the Option key and select Library. Then navigate down from there.

I just delete the Plex folder and relaunch. It comes up fresh so you’ll have to login again.

Hope this helps,

Chris

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Thanks for the tip, but I think that’s overkill.

I just deleted the plex.ini file instead. It cleared all settings so I had to login again, but my library is still intact. At least I didn’t have to edit code in the .ini file to make Plex work as well as it used to.

Bonus for Library access: there’s a toggle at the bottom of the View Options (Cmd-J) pop-up panel. Turn it on and Library will always show as a folder in [user].