I want to change the email address I use for Plex but I have people sharing my server. If I change my email address will I have to share with them all over or is there a way to change it and keep everything else the same?
Thanks
Changing the email address doesn’t affect anything, if you do it right.
Do it on this page: https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account
Make sure you don’t produce any typos.
Test the new email address previous to changing it in Plex.
Tip: don’t switch to an email address that is being hosted by Microsoft. i.e. Hotmail, live.com etc.
That brings up another question, Does the email address I use on my server have to be associated with Plex in any way?
IOW, does it need to have a Plex account or be the same as this forum or any other part of Plex?
I’m assuming just Plex account
I went ahead and tried it.
Getting “username already taken”.
I’m trying to use an account that already exists in Plex. Guessing that’s why I get that error and now I’m guessing that’s why you said change it through the account settings. Thinking that would “CREATE” a new plex account.
Didn’t want to create a new account, just change to an existing account.
Any way to do that without having anything else change?
Of course. It has to be the email address of a valid, existing plex.tv account.
And you’ll have to use the same email address to sign in your Plex clients, in order to access and administrate that server.
If you are changing the plex.tv account of your server, you will indeed lose all shares you may have granted before.
So don’t do it.
Let’s start over.
What do you actually want to achieve? Why do you want to use a different email?
Just because I’m getting rid of the address I use now.
If it’s gonna be a big deal, I’ll just keep it. But if it’s easy I’d rather do it.
So I already have another Plex account that I want to switch to.
When I try to edit the email address in settings/account, it won’t let me.
Is there a way to delete the “new” account so I can then create it in settings?
If the email you want to use wasn’t already bound to an existing plex.tv account, you could change it easily. Just like I explained it in my first response above.
Here is a way:
The email address you want to use is already bound to an existing plex.tv account.
I assume that this account was created by you. So you might have a password for it.
(But even if you don’t remember the password for it anymore, you can perform the “Password forgotten” procedure to get back into it.)
Use the “Privacy”/“Incognito” mode of your web browser (important!) to log into this other Plex account.
Verify that you are logged in to the right plex account!
Delete the account. https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account
Wait one month. (This cannot be shortened.)
After one month has passed, you can perform the “Change Email address” procedure from the first response above.
Without the need to change anything else. No need to sign out of clients or apps, no need to recreate the server shares.
Thanks.
I’ll give it a try.
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