Plex Data directory location FN11.2 U1/U2

[Spencer Skinner]

With the new plugin system where is the plex data directory located now, i cant seem to find it.

Any ideas where its gone?

Many Thanks
Spencer

 

[danb35]

If I understand the new system correctly, it'll be in the same place as if you'd done a manual install in the jail: /usr/local/plexdata (or /usr/local/plexdata-plexpass if you installed the Plexpass version).

 

[Spencer Skinner]

If I understand the new system correctly, it'll be in the same place as if you'd done a manual install in the jail: /usr/local/plexdata (or /usr/local/plexdata-plexpass if you installed the Plexpass version).

Alright, had a feeling it might have been that, looks like ive lost it then, and i stupidly didnt make any snapshot. Hey ho, time to rebuild the database

 

[danb35]

If it isn't there, it'd be worth doing a search for it first: find / -name plexdata.

 

[Spencer Skinner]

Yeh gave that a try and its returned nothing unfortunately, not sure how that got deleted

 

[JaimieV]

I'm just doing a migration to a new machine and I installed plex fresh, planning to restore my backup of the plexdata folder into it.

And discovered that there is no plexdata folder with the current 11.2 plugin. Nor is anything hidden down in (jailroot)/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server as it used to be. Instead it's just /Plex Media Server in the (jailroot) folder. I unpacked my old archive of plexdata, deleted the existing /Plex Media Server and moved the archived one into place.

 

[danb35]

Instead it's just /Plex Media Server in the (jailroot) folder.

Very strange. Glad you found it, though!

 

[JaimieV]

My previous upgrade notes had a third path, FreeNAS9 I think: {jails}/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata. It seems like the Plex plugin is rather randomly put together! Thank you hugely to whoever does it, of course, but it would be nice if the name and the update json matched for the next release... instead of "plex" but the update needing to be "plexmediaserver" or "plexmediaserver-plexpass".