I Hate to Ask (Moved appdata and now all libraries gone

frankbaum67
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:19:23 +0000
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I followed the instructions to move appdata to an external hard drive:

[HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows General Discussions

Doesn’t matter. It is being kept up-to-date. You need to copy the metadata from the old location first! And a common mistake is failing to stop the plex server while doing that. Which will result in a damaged/invalid database file being copied. Which then can make the impression that there is nothing in there at all. So, please go back and repeat the steps carefully. Actually, this can already have caused the database file to get corrupted. The solution is to restore one of the backup c…

Anyway… all of the libraries have disappeared and it looks like new stuff is still going to the now empty original folder on the PC hard drive… I don’t want to have to start again with new libraries and have to do the whole making new data. I’ve worked too hard to make my Plex perfect.

I just checked my registry editor and the stringvalue I added is gone… happened 3 times already and I thought it was there this time when I restarted… but after starting Plex just now it disappeared again.

Please help this not tech savvy person fix this. I will not put the 300Gb back on my PC, no way…

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