I have gone from a Mac Mini 2012 with 2TB Fusion Drive to a 2018 version with only 128GB internal. I have an external SSD that I want to use to store Plex files.
In the past, I had a smaller hard drive and I did a symlink from ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server to an external drive.
I can do that again (and I hope it works) but I’m wondering if there’s a setting in Plex to tell it to use /Volumes/ExternalSSD/Plex Media Server ? If so, I can’t find it.
On macOS, the method of changing the storage location for PMS’ data is still to use a symlink. On Windows, there’s a setting to change the data path; however, that’s the only platform with that particular setting. See “Relocate Your Plex Media Server Data Directory” at this link:
Thanks. I used rsync -avz to sync the data from ~/Library to the external disk, then quit Plex, ran rsync -avz again, renamed the old directory to “PMS”, made the symlink from the external directory (cd /Library/Application Support/; ln -s /Volumes/External/Plex Media Server .) and started up Plex.
Everything seems to be working fine.
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