So I was looking at this thread. I noticed there is still no built-in method to see the PLEX install directory on a QNAP. I have a ton of media and library info I want to migrate from my current PLEX Windows server to my new QNAP Plex that can handle transcodes, hence why I want to access the directory. Is this still the best way? If so… I have a “PLEX” library already, so do I just need to connect via SSH and use the command below and that’s it? Thanks for any help you guys can provide.
I see. I’m using QuTS 5.0 which has a different ZFS configuration and the PATH selection is not an option. Instead, it creates a new folder rather than letting select the path. That seems like a regression.
On QTS or QuTS if you create a shared folder named PlexData (exact capitalization) then PMS will use it the next time it starts.
The PMS startup (as launched from App Center) looks for a shared folder named ‘PlexData’.
If it finds one, it takes the current (OS-level) location of the “Plex Media Server” directory and creates a link to it in “PlexData”.
It was created this way so you can move the PMS app to different volumes and always have a linkage (through FileStation) for easy access to the Logs or making backups of your server data without needing to use the command line.
On QuTS, the PlexData directory only needs 8K bytes by default.
If you want to put backups there, feel free to allocate more space.
