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Making a cloned Plex media server unique on a Mac
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Plex has some ids per server that should be unique per plex server. If you clone a Plex setup (e.g. via settin up a new mac with a timemachine backup from another Plex server) you need to manually change some values.
For Windows it would be like:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1170859/#Comment_1170859
On a Mac you can use the defaults command.
Show the values:
# defaults read com.plexapp.plexmediaserver
Clear out the old unique identifiers:
# defaults delete com.plexapp.plexmediaserver AnonymousMachineIdentifier
# defaults delete com.plexapp.plexmediaserver MachineIdentifier
# defaults delete com.plexapp.plexmediaserver ProcessedMachineIdentifier
# defaults delete com.plexapp.plexmediaserver PlexOnlineHome
To read/change the 'friendly name'
# defaults read com.plexapp.plexmediaserver FriendlyName
# defaults write com.plexapp.plexmediaserver FriendlyName newplexservernamehere
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