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How to Move the Plex Data Directory in Windows

If your Plex Media Server instance contains a lot of media files, then it may make sense to movement the Plex data directory in Windows to another location. The default location of the information directory is on the arrangement drive, and so if that drive in your Plex server is small, so you may want to look at moving the information directory.

Moving the directory, however, is not as easy as changing a setting in the Plex Media Server settings. The reason is that the setting does not exist. Changing the location of the data directory is a manual process that is washed outside of Plex.

How to Move the Plex Data Directory in Windows

Moving the Plex data directory in Windows

To modify the Plex data directory in Windows, utilise the following steps:

Log onto your Plex server as the user account that is running the Plex Media Server instance.
Stop the Plex case running on the server by right-clicking the Plex system tray icon and the select Leave. If Plex is running as a service, you lot should merely stop that service.
Click the Start push button and blazon services.msc – the Services app should be displayed in the search results. Correct-click the Services app and select the Run as administrator selection.
In the Services list, coil downwards until your see the Plex Update Service service. Right-click the service and select the Cease option from the context carte du jour.
Open Windows Explorer and navigate the Plex data directory, which is hither by default:
```
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server
```
Copy the contents of the Plex data directory to the new location, for example:
```
Thou:\Plex\Plex Media Server
```
The copy procedure can take several hours, depending on the size of your media library.
Once the copy has completed, click the Outset button and type regedit.exe and the open the registry editor.

Navigate to the following primal in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server

If the value LocalAppDataPath does not exist in the list on the right, right-click an empty area in the list and select New->String Value. Name the value LocalAppDataPath.
Double-click the LocalAppDataPath value and enter the path to the new Plex data directory. Do not include the Plex Media Server binder in the path. For my example above, the LocalAppDataPath information value will be:
```
M:\Plex
```
The Plex LocalAppDataPath value in the Windows registry
Close the registry editor.
Restart the computer to take all the Plex services and processes restart and begin to use the new information directory location.

Notes nearly moving the data directory in Windows

While moving the Plex data directory tin can be done, at that place are a few points to consider before moving the directory:

The file system where the data directory is located must be NTFS.
The data directory cannot be located on a network share.
Don't point the data directory to the root directory of a drive – specify a folder on the bulldoze.
For performance, you may want to ensure the information directory is on an SSD, and non a spinning hard disk drive.

The to a higher place sections outline how to motility the Plex data directory in Windows to a new location. If the system drive in your server is low on drive space, moving the Plex data to some other drive could help free up much needed infinite.