Changed hard drives. Can I transfer metadata?

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I had been having problems with my Mac hard drive which was not letting me boot up. Apparently the hard drive was “locked”.

I have since been able to access the drive as a secondary via USB caddy. I have managed to transfer over the movies/music that I had which was 1000’s to a new drive which has a new copy of operating system and Plex program installed.

Is there a way I can drag the metadata file/folder of the movies/music instead of auto adding media to Plex where it’ll scan which would take ages and then got the painstaking tasks of sorting the incorrect scanned. ??

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Yes.

It’s the same process as moving plex to a new computer.

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My other problem is that I’ve changed the locations of where the music/movies are located to different drives.

Will that cause a problem ?

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possibly, but if you follow the link instructions carefully, it should be ok.

you should make sure you keep a separate backup copy of the plex database folder, just in case things go south.

the database is the most important part, everything else can be reinstalled/refreshed/redownloaded.

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