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 wa…

[image] 2740 - Remove the Windows AppData path...? Plex Media Server Server Version#: 1.19.3.2740 Player Version#: Just saw this in the release notes: (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355) What does this mean? Is it the field:…

Thanks for the answer, I don’t understand how it could have been unsafe but it’s fine. Thanks again

[image] Security: Regarding CVE-2020-5741 Announcements Hello, We have recently been made aware of a security vulnerability related to Plex Media Server. This issue allowed an attacker with access to the server administrator’s Plex account to upload a malicious file via t…

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 credent…

[image] MJLongman: So what am I supposed to do now if I don’t want Plex to take up half the space on my SSD See [HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows

Thanks for the link. I’ll give that a go, though creating a directory junction seems to have also worked.

Where did "The path where local application data is stored" go?

Plex Media Server

krazyfiend May 20, 2020, 6:20pm 4

this explains it in better detail of why it was an issue.

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Where is the option to select Plex Local Data? Plex Media Server server-windows	6	545	December 27, 2020
Appdata Location Missing PMSV: 1.19.4.2902 Metadata & Adding Files server-windows	4	516	September 2, 2020
2740 - Remove the Windows AppData path...? Plex Media Server server-windows	7	562	August 14, 2020
The Path where Local Application Data is Stored setting missing in version 1.19.4.2935 Metadata & Adding Files server-windows	4	1194	September 19, 2020
The appdata library location is no longer available in new versions of Plex Plex Media Server server-windows	2	634	September 8, 2020

Where did "The path where local application data is stored" go?

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