PSA/Warning - Changing Plex Transcode Directory Wiped 12-15 TB Of My Data

@citizenatlarge ugh that is awful… Very sorry that this happened. Thank you for reporting. We were able to quickly reproduce this issue. The issue looks to be isolated to the Downloads temporary directory setting. So like you reported, once the Downloads temporary directory is set, anything inside that directory is wiped. Setting the root of a drive would then in effect wipe the drive. I’ve created an internal issue for our engineers to investigate. Thank you again for reporting and again very sorry that this happened and the inconvenience this has caused.

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