One Plex Drive But 2 Startup Drives on My Mac

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I have one Plex Drive shared by 2 different Startup Drives on my Mac. I simply want the Plex Drive to be available as my usual Plex Server when I use my secondary startup drive. When I use my secondary startup drive, Plex says my Plex Server is offline.

Thanks!

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Are you talking about actual startup drives (each with their own installation of macOS)?
If so… that second OS will needs its own installation of a Plex Media Server. Even if you move the data folders around, Plex is likely to fail with this setup as e.g. because the preferences.xml maintains a machine identifier which will be different between the 2 OS instances.
Have you considered moving the Plex Media Server to a NAS or mini PC (e.g. an Intel NUC) instead?

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Thanks so much for the info Tom.

Yes these are two different OS on two different drives so sounds like that won’t work. I like the idea of Using a Mini PC but since my main computer is just easier at the moment, is it possible to just move my Plex Server from one drive to the other permanently?

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You can move Plex’ data folder and media. You should not move the actual Plex Media Server installation.

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Thanks again! Would you have any link on how to make that move?

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Moving content:

Moving your data folder

There’s no particular documentation for macOS… probably as simple as:

  1. shut down Plex
  2. create an Alias (a hard link if you can) from ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ to the place where you want that data to be located
  3. make sure your user has sufficient permissions to access the target folder (read+write)
  4. restart Plex

Be careful… you should not move that data e.g. to a network drive. If the data is not available, you won’t be able to run that Plex Media Server!

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Thanks a million!

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