Hi All
I was having a problem getting plex server to access the hard drive media, i read a forum that said to remove plex folders and reinstall, so I did that and deleted the Plex folder from the drive…does that mean that all my actual data is gone?? I thought it was backed up and mirrored on the drive? Right now it seems all the files are gone. Is there anyway to get them back?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Gem222,
One of the many Scheduled Tasks that a Plex Media Server performs is to make regular backups of the core database, which holds things such as your viewstate information and media matching details. You can manually find the backup folder.
The database backups will be named along the lines of:
Com.plesapp.plugins.library.db-2020-04-10
On Windows, the backups will be located inside of the user directory:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server \ Plug-in Support \ Databases
Still you are not able to find your actual data there, so you may try data recovery programs like stellar data recovery professional or recuva to recover data base library files/data. Thanks
