# Saving video thumbnails in a different location
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/saving-video-thumbnails-in-a-different-location/700904
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** library-management
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/saving-video-thumbnails-in-a-different-location/700904 "2021-03-16T14:03:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@LeendertP](https://forums.plex.tv/u/LeendertP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/saving-video-thumbnails-in-a-different-location/700904/1 "2021-03-16T14:03:37Z")
Many people use a fast ssd drive to store their media data in. It is also currently possible to set this location.
While this is working fine, it becomes a problem when people store for example video thumbnails which are 10-50 MB in this same location.
My request is to be able to change the location where video thumbnails are being stored to either the location where the media is located or a separate directory in Plex data folder.
This way people have the choice where to save this data and people can continue to store their metadata on a ssd, even with a large library of content.
A possible solution now is to use symlinks, but as the indexes folder that contains the video thumbnails file is located in the same media folder, this becomes very difficult to do so.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/saving-video-thumbnails-in-a-different-location/700904/2 "2021-03-16T14:08:00Z")
A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.
> [@Option to store generated video preview thumbnails with media in subfolder](https://forums.plex.tv/t/option-to-store-generated-video-preview-thumbnails-with-media-in-subfolder/140049/1):
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> It would be nice if Plex had the option to store the generated media thumbnails with the media possibly in a subfolder. Personally, for me it would be nice, because I run unraid, and Plex lives on my cache drive which is an SSD. Mainly due to preview thumbnails my Plex install has ballooned to 120GB. It would be nice to get back the vast majority of that space on my SSD. It would also help if I ever had to restore my plex installation, because the preview thumbnails would be seperate, and my ba…
Therefore this one is closed, to prevent spreading the votes across several threads, even though they vote for the same (or at least very similar thing).
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/saving-video-thumbnails-in-a-different-location/700904/3 "2021-03-16T14:08:02Z")