I know that im not alone in 1) wanting to run analysis on all my media for thumbnails etc 2) storing the database / base plex install on an SSD. Only my SSD is running out of space... I may have to delete everything and start again as there does not seem to be away to delete just the analys…

You can move the entire pms folder where ever you want just put a symlink in the original location

You can change the location in the PMS settings quite easily. Go to plex.tv/web/app#!/settings/server and click show advanced settings, then change the storage location for application data.

You can change the location in the PMS settings quite easily. Go to plex.tv/web/app#!/settings/server and click show advanced settings, then change the storage location for application data. thats pref is only in the windows version of server (AFAIK). nix type operating systems need to make sy…

Ah, had no idea this feature was Windows only... been a while since I've run PMS on Linux of OSX. Seems an essential feature to me, so +1 andyclimb's feature request.

See the Plex Wiki, which seems to indicate you can set advanced settings for various *nix based too using an advanced setting. Variable you want is "LocalAppDataPath" Advanced Server Settings Windows instructs to use a registry key. *Nix, an xml file. I set my win registry key several versions b…

Thanks for the input. I was wanting something a bit more specific. It would be easy for me to relocate the entire folder using symlimks but that is not quite what I want. Most of the library is thumbnails and metadata which doesn’t take up much space. I wanted I keep this on the ssd for the sake…

I think i've successfully solved my own problem. I've written a small bash script that when combined with the find command moves all the *.bif files to another location and replaces them with a symlink. Seems to work, and i've just offloaded 60Gb from my SSD whilst keeping all the metadata there…

Seperate storage location for media analysis files

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