Moving PLEX Data folder

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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I’d like to Move just my Data (Media art + meta data) => volume 3
Media is on volume 2
Leaving the Flex Binaries in place => volume 1
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I am writing this post.

  1. The installer will let you put the binaries (all 200 MB of them) where you select. You select the location in Package Center. DSM actually puts the binaries in @appstore on the selected volume.
  2. If you move the Plex share, You only need move the share when the package isn’t installed. Upon re-installation, the installer finds it.
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Think you misunderstanding my question.

ok so I told DSM to install all packages to volume1 (M.2 based), so as you say this will then be to the @appstore, and I’d like to leave the binaries here, I only want to move my PLEX meta data location, the media art etc.

PLex seems to cater for this easily on the Windows environment, by giving you the option under Settings/server/Advance, but not for Linux based hosts.

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  1. The Plex binaries are under control of DSM and get placed in @appstore on the same volume as the Plex share (your metadata) by default.
  2. If you select to install Plex on volume2, DSM will put the binaries there also. This is beyond my control (I wrote the installer).
  3. If you only wish to move the Plex share (your metadata) to a different volume, the task is easier.

Do the following as a username with administrative privilege:

  1. Uninstall the app
  2. Rename Plex share name to oldPlex or other name convenient name in Control Panel - Shared folders
  3. Create new share, named Plex on the desired volume
  4. Using File Station, move the metadata (Library) and temporary transcoding directories to the new Plex share
  5. After move complete, right-click Library - Properties. Verify it is still owned by user plex. If not, make it so and apply to this folder, sub folders and files.
  6. Remove the oldPlex share
  7. Install the app.
  8. As it installs, the installer looks to see if you have an existing Plex share. If so, it attaches the package to it. If it finds none, then it creates a new share.
  9. If, during installation, the new volume starts ‘rattling’ hard, it is because the installer found something in the metadata not owned by user plex. When I detect this, I make it forcibly set the ownership of everything in the Plex share to plex:users.

Windows cating is irrelevant. QNAP allows migration. Synology does not provide such a mechanism . I must abide by the Synology package SDK.

I wish to share here because it makes sense to and someone, sometime in the future, reads this.

The Plex share is intended for metadata only. It is stored on a volume because the default OS area is too small. Out on the volume, as a share, is the only way I could do it and give everyone a means some level of control over it. It’s also the only way one can get the log files in the event PMS doesn’t start without resorting to using the shell / command line.

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Thanks, will go looking/digging/playing around on my lab environment.

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