# Location of plexdata? Missing the setting?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/location-of-plexdata-missing-the-setting/588495>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [May 10, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/location-of-plexdata-missing-the-setting/588495 "2020-05-10T23:59:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![NewPlaza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/newplaza/32/128634_2.png) [@NewPlaza](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NewPlaza)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/location-of-plexdata-missing-the-setting/588495/2 "2020-05-11T00:15:51Z")

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I’m assuming you are referring to the apppath preference

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It was removed for security reasons.

> [@Plex Media Server](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/340):
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> Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2764 is now available to everyone NEW: (Web) Updated to 4.30.2 FIXES: (DVR) Postprocessing scripts must now be located inside APPDATA/Scripts. Old scripts will continue to work (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368) (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432) (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305) (Security) Remove the Windo…

- (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355)

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