Hey there! So last night an older 2tb drive failed (my F: drive). No big worries- it was pretty old and the data is backed up two times over on other drives/devices. I’ve got Amazon delivering me its replacement today.
So, F:\Music was linked into Plex. I have another drive online (P:\Music) that’s working fine and was a clone of F:\Music.
My question is: What is the easiest and least aggressive way to point Plex to P:\Music instead of F:\Music? I know sometimes with big library (~70k files) shifts like this, things can get super messy and that’s what I’m trying to avoid. I’m hoping there is a config file somewhere that I could just search/replace “F:” with “P:”?
If you can’t change the drive letter (maybe other software using P) then you can SHARE the P drive with yourself and then map a drive to it. Then when you get the replacement drive copy back to it and unshare the drive.
Ah ha, that is an idea i was bouncing around in my head. But unfortunately I have other data on P: linked up with other programs that will break if I change the drive letter like that. Would cause a larger headache for me for sure haha
So I think what I’ll end up doing is once I get this new 4tb drive from Amazon tonight, I’ll just copy over everything and name the new 4tb drive F: … that should do the trick for me I believe!
@cayars said:
If you can’t change the drive letter (maybe other software using P) then you can SHARE the P drive with yourself and then map a drive to it. Then when you get the replacement drive copy back to it and unshare the drive.
Carlo
Yes, exactly this! Good info here, thanks a bunch to the both of you!
