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My main hard drive got wiped clean some how. I’ve got a backup on Backblaze that I’m restoring from. All my media files are safe and where they’ve always been (on separate drives). I reinstalled Plex, but it comes up with no recognition of having previously had a database on my machine. Where is this information kept so I can see if I can find it on the back up and make sure its restored.
This support page may assist
I confirmed that the directory is there (and has information in it) but plex still doesn’t acknowledge my library. Any other ideas on how to reconnect this?
I’ve got plex server running on the same machine that I’m running the plex web app.
How can it not find the server running on same machine?
macOS Mojave 10.14.6
I’ve shut down and restarted several times.
If you restored your Plex Media Server configuration from a backup, your machine identifier might no longer match that stored in the Plex preferences.
Have you tried deleting the related entries from the .plist file (or deleted the .plist file for good)?
I have not, can you be a little more specific on what I should delete? Thanks!
From https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/#toc-0
File: ~/Library/Preferences/com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.plist
This xml file contains a number keys/value pairs for MachineIdentifiers. I need to admit I haven’t been doing this in some time – so I cannot tell for sure if it’ll be enough to delete only the exact key or to delete all keys/values that store some kind of machine identifier.
Edit: it might be easiest to simply rename the existing com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.plist file (e.g. by adding a suffix or file extension _old). This way, Plex will create a clean new preferences file.
Renamed that and restarted server and web app. Watched it create a new .plist file, still can’t seem to find it.
Some success, I had been having some permission issues with other programs and ran Fix Permissions through CleanMyMac and not only did that fix my other problems, plex found the server. However it still doesn’t seem to see my full database. It found some of the music and photos. but no movies and TV shows. Is also still has the other server it can’t find listed.
Not sure if that’s messing anything up. Any idea how to remove the bad one?
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