Good evening, as you can see from the image I use the latest version of the PMS, my question may seem trivial but before posting I searched quite a bit inside the settings to find it and, maybe I’m blind today but I can’t find “The path where local application data is stored” in previous versions was inside the “General” tab but now I can’t find it and even if you don’t see it I have enabled advanced settings, maybe it has been moved? I don’t think they forgot it 
Thanks
Thanks for the answer, I don’t understand how it could have been unsafe but it’s fine. Thanks again
this explains it in better detail of why it was an issue.
I don’t know if you can call it a security issue if you need “access to the server administrator’s Plex account” to exploit it. You can do a lot of damage to any system if you have the rights to do so. Rather than remove a useful feature, it’d be better to not have leaked the administrator credentials in the first place. That’s like taking the wheels off your car because someone could drive off with it if they had your keys. Maybe just don’t leave your keys lying around and it won’t be a problem…
I think the bigger problem is that a server application has any reliance on a local Windows profile. Why Plex can’t run as a service and stores huge amounts of data in a profile is ludicrous. Whoever thought that was good design decisions for a server app should be fired.
So what am I supposed to do now if I don’t want Plex to take up half the space on my SSD with media info? Is it supported to make a symbolic link or directory junction for ‘C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server’ that points to the HDD where my media is stored?
Thanks for the link. I’ll give that a go, though creating a directory junction seems to have also worked.
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