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I am migrating my videos from a Windows server to a Linux server on Docker. I had previously optimized my videos on the Windows server. I tried to copy them over to the Linux server, but the Plex Media Server doesn’t recognize them in the directory and continues to optimize the videos again. I have over 700 videos. This will take a very long time. Is there a way I can have the Plex Media Server recognize that the videos exist and use them, instead of optimizing the videos again?
Unfortunately no. The information on if a file was optimized by pms is saved in the database so setting up a new server and copying over the files will not carryover this info.
Does anyone know where it is stored in the database? The table names don’t make complete sense to me, but I am more than capable of inserting records into a DB.
It’s not just 1 thing you can edit. If you have the original database from the windows setup, you can manually edit the file paths to get the media recognized, then you wouldn’t need to worry about the optimization data.
