Need some help desperately!

[jltoro]

So, I’m an idiot and when switching servers and deleting my old server, I didn’t realize that parts were still “rsync’ed” with my new server. Effectively deleting all of my photos i’ve ever had!

I’ve been able to get most all as I had them on other drives. One Album though, the birth of my daughter, I haven’t found. I still see the images on my plex with the trash can over them, as I don’t have empty trash enabled. I was wondering if there was a way to get the pictures that plex is using as the “poster” for each image out of the appdata? I know that it’s not full res and won’t replace my lost photos, but it’s atleast something to have from the day she was born!

Thanks,

-J

[TeknoJunky]

if you ‘edit’ or ‘get info’ of the poster with the trash, you should be able to identify the path/filename of the picture and start looking there.

if that path is still around somewhere, your pictures should be there.

but if that path/filename has been deleted, then it sounds like you may be out of luck

[jltoro]

Thanks, yeah the path was absolutely trashed… What I’m hoping is to find a way to download the poster itself since I can still see a smaller version. Not the best quality but better than nothing!

[jltoro]

Just don’t know where plex stores the “posters” or thumbnails for the photos library so I can recoup these posters and add them back into my library in place of the old full res ones.

[TeknoJunky]

do the ‘get info’ thing above, then click the ‘view xml’

within the xml you should see a bunch of stuff, look for the paths

thumb="/library/metadata/274105/thumb/1583962282" art="/library/metadata/274103/art/1513913419

the /library/metadata path should be wherever your plexdata is stored on that server.

where is your plex data? see below

Where is the Plex Media Server data directory located? | Plex Support

[jltoro]

I found another way to get it thankfully… I just had to inspect the page in chrome and I can open up all the posters and download them. it’s a bit tedious but absolutely worth it! Thanks again for your help TeknoJunky!