Following several issues with Windows 10, I decided to do a reset, leaving all my files intact. I re-d/loaded Plex Media Server and launched it. It came up with a generic looking ‘Home’ screen and, on the sidebar, the name of my previous server with an exclamation mark alongside it. I was also presented with another ‘server’ bearing the name of my computer. Being unable to access my original named server (“unavailable”??) I started to populate the Libraries in the ‘suggested’ server.
This has worked, up to a point; but I’m sorely missing the large-ish playlists I’d assembled, and I can’t access the ‘new’ server via ROKU on my television, as I could before, so cannot watch the movies I’d collected or listen to the music; two things I often did previously.
It occurs to me that I have a poor understanding of what goes on ‘under the bonnet’, but, as Plex is clearly ‘aware’ of my previous server (showing its name) then I’m guessing that some adjustment to the settings might bring me back to my previous, desired state.
Can anyone help? Please? Thank you.
All your library data are stored in the Plex data folder
Apparently Windows did lie to you and deleted everything in there.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t have lost these contents.
No, sir. The media files are all in place, and accessed by the new ‘server’. But I really miss my playlists, and I don’t relish the thought of re-creating them. As Plex is ‘aware’ of my previous server (its name is there on the sidebar) is there some setting I can adjust to revive it? Otherwise it’s always there mocking me (!!)
I was not talking about the media files, but rather the information which Plex server has previously collected and stored about these files.
All of that is stored on your local hard drive. It is not uploaded to some “cloud server”, so there is no backup of it.
OK, Otto. Got it. So, back to the playlists, then? What delights.
Thanks for taking an interest in this topic.
Mart.
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