#How to access temp folder on mac mac#
#How to access temp folder on mac windows#

You'll want to keep both of the windows open to make typing paths easier. Now you want to create a symlink (this is a symbolic link basically tying two locations together). Once the copy is complete, you can rename the original folder to something like PMS_Old or something (we'll delete this later). This will begin a copy that could take a few minutes depending on how big it is. In the window that opens, click and drag the Plex Media Server folder to your external drive.

To do this the first step is to shut down PMS, and then copy your PMS folder to your external drive.Ĭlick on your desktop (need to be in Finder) and then click the Go menu, select Go to Folder, then type ~/Library/Application Support/ While this will cause your library to load and scroll much slower than normal (as well as multiple read/write cycles on your HDDs), the easiest way to do this is to create a symlink for the Plex directory. Just to sum up some other commenters, you aren't wanting to change a 'cache' or 'temp' folder to an external drive - you're wanting to move your entire Plex installation to an external drive.

There must be a way to force plex to add all these junk media gallery files to the external drive and not the internal SSD!įor example want to move the files that are stores here: ~/Library/Caches/PlexMediaServer/ to external drive as soon as i start to add my 1000+ gallery, my macs SSD drive starts going crazy, and when i check the storage on my external drive, the storage is still the same, while my SSD have gone up with 30+ GB (and counting so far). Update: so i created a symlink of the plex media server, and in plex setting pointed transcoder to external drive.

#How to access temp folder on mac mac#

Were in Mac (big sur) can i force plex settings to use the external drive (this folder dir: /Volumes/WD 14TB/Plex/Plex Temp) to host all meta / temp files? So ive installed plex meda server on my mac mini (m1) and due to my huge media gallery, i want to force plex to use my external drive as temp plex folders (my old folder on windows had around 2 million files and were around 200gb). Please go to the relevant subreddits and support forums, for example: Build help and build shares posts go in their respective megathreads No referral / affiliate links, personal voting / campaigning / funding, or selling posts Welcome to /r/Plex, a subreddit dedicated to Plex, the media server/client solution for enjoying your media! Plex Community Discord Rules Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Tool Tuesday: Build Help: Share Your Build: Submit Troubleshooting Post Files not showing up correctly?