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No idea what happened but I was watching a movie and then it stopped playing. Didn’t get a chance to look until the next day, and the folder containing that media folder now contains a BIF file which is 4.8 MB (yes, MB) and the MKV which was a 6 GB MKV is now 4,096 bytes. And short of looking at every folder, in my file system, I see 129 folders for movies. In Plex Media server, I see 84 movies. I’d have to spend some time looking at maybe file sizes of each folder to see what happened, but - What the heck happened?
That doesn’t sound like something Plex will do… any other apps on your system that might have gone rogue?
Did you point Plex’s media libraries to the location of the Plex data folder?
Never intermingle the location of the media files themselves and the Plex data folder.
Not that I can think of… Computer running the plex media server really only otherwise used for AgentDVR (CCTV Camera software).
Edit your Movies library
go to the “Add Folders” tab
look at which folder location the library has been pointed at.
Copy this location into here.
Go look at the Windows registry. (regedit.exe)
Go to the location mentioned in this post [HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows
And look for the string LocalAppDataPath. If it exists, look at its content. At which location is it pointing? Copy this location into here as well.
Now go look at the configuration of your CCTV software. At which drive and folder has it been pointed to store and organize the recordings?
Copy that path into here, too.
Add Folders:
K:\Plex\Movies
No LocalAppDataPath string.
CCTV software:
G:\Agent\
Hm, nothing that stands out.
Then I’m afraid I have no idea.
In any case, Plex does only generate BIF files in its own Plex data folder.
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