# PMS as a service

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**Category:** Tips, Tricks & How-Tos\
**Tags:** server-windows, tipstricks\
**Created:** [January 9, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-as-a-service/53381 "2014-01-09T09:55:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-as-a-service/53381/27 "2014-01-20T21:43:10Z")

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> Ok, currently I have my media on my D drive (second vHD) just thinking about where plex stores info to know where to look for the media
> 
> thanks

There are two separate things:

1. Plex Media Server data&nbsp;

2. The actual Media files

The media files you add to library sections when you create the library sections

The Plex Media Server data is created and maintained by Plex Media Server

The default place (for windows 7 onwards) is:

c:\users\username\appdata\local\Plex Media Server

You can change this default by editing the field that defines it in Settings - but you have to be extremely careful as you risk losing all the meta data gathered by Plex Media Server. One of the 2 articles I linked for you in [post #24](https://forums.plex.tv/t/53381/24) covers this

See Plex Media Server Settings for General (with Show Advanced Settings) - Field:&nbsp; **The path where local application data is stored**

[http://localhost:32400/web/index.html#!/settings](http://localhost:32400/web/index.html#!/settings)

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