Index file location (*.bif)

I think it would be nice if there was an option to store the index (*.bif) files in the same location as the video file itself.

 

These files have the potential to make the local data folder absolutely huge.

 

I have over 2000 movies and over 5000 TV episodes. I've been generating the index for a few days now and I think it's a great feature for 'Now Playing' and my Roku/Android players but I'm now realizing that I won't be able to fit this data on my SSD.

 

My current calculations are estimating that the Film index alone is going to be about 80 gigs, TV will probably be even bigger.

 

I just built a new standalone Plex server and installed a 120gb SSD for Windows and the Plex database but clearly this isn't going to be enough.

 

I know I could move the whole local data folder to a different drive but I would rather keep it separate from my media drives. In the past I had it on one of my film drives but when that drive died it took out my whole Plex server as Plex wouldn't start without its database. By keeping the main database on the Windows disk, as  long as Windows boots Plex should boot even it a media drive has failed (I'll just be missing a few shows until I replace my drive with my backup)

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate