# Non-existant plex servers still show

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [January 24, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/non-existant-plex-servers-still-show/828008 "2023-01-24T01:06:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/non-existant-plex-servers-still-show/828008/4 "2023-01-24T10:50:17Z")

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> [@nurbles](#):
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> So the change was made to protect _Plex_ (somehow) from someone who already has full access to the server’s file system (in order to “specially prepare” a folder)? Sorry, but I really don’t see that as very much protection _for me_ – certainly not balanced by the difficulty of finding and correctly creating the setting manually.

It was solely to protect _your_ server and _your_ files/data. It never posed a threat to plex.tv  
The security researcher who found this issue, saw fit to list it in the CVE database and thus pretty much forced Plex Inc’s hands. [Security: Regarding CVE-2020-5741](https://forums.plex.tv/t/security-regarding-cve-2020-5741/586819/1)

> [@nurbles](#):
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> However, even if I had found them, the **preparation** steps would’ve been rather difficult to perform on the TOTALLY DEAD source machine.

As long as the hard drive or SSD(s) which held the [Plex data folder](https://support.plex.tv/articles/202915258-where-is-the-plex-media-server-data-directory-located/) and the Windows registry are still intact, you can connect them to the new machine and salvage the data this way.

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