How to uninstall Plex completely from my Synology NAS?

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Hello,

… how to uninstall Plex completely from my Synology NAS?

I was able to uninstall the application itself but there is still a shared folder called “Plex” with description “Plex Media Library”.

Can I delete this shared folder? What does this folder contain? Only the database or source files (which I do not believe)?

This file is about 7 GB and the weight of all my audio / video source files is about 2.5 TB.

I do not know what is this 7 GB folder and I would like not to delete source files.

Thank you for your recommendations. :wink:

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  1. Uninstall the app in Package Center
  2. Control Panel - Users - Delete user - Plex
  3. Control Panel - Shared Folders - Delete the Plex share.

Now Plex and all support mechanisms have been completely removed

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ChuckPA, trmpy81, thank you very much for your help and for the confirmation of the files to be deleted.
Thank you.

:wink:

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Hi

First of all, sorry for my english :slight_smile:
I have installed first Plex from Synology application portal.
Then I saw an update was available. I downloaded the package and manually installed it.

Then, I tried to add a directory in the library but without success.
I decided to uninstall plex (from the application portal button).

From that time, when I now try to install it again from the regular way, I get a message informing that a service is already running and using the port 32400.

I have no idea of what I’m supposed to do !

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THANKS !!! :slight_smile:
It now works :slight_smile:

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Is there a place to download previous versions of PMS? The last update is what made my server unable to be claimed.

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what do you exactly mean by “unable to be claimed” ?
when you installed the last version, did you first disable PlexMediaServer from your Synology ?

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Will try a full reboot of everything shortly, but here is the claim issue.

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Thanks indeed. Very useful hints. After 2 days of searching for real help your post is the solution for strange broken links in my plex installation . Great !

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Broken links?

My installation scripts don’t create any symlinks.

Care to elaborate?

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