I may soon need to move my library to a new Windows drive letter - the folder structure will be the exact same but the base drive letter will change. I have MANY years customization in my libraries so I don’t want to lose that, as I understand the best way to do this is:
Disable trash cleanup
Edit each library to add the new drive letter/path
Leave the existing/old paths
Scan the library and ensure it’s verified everything (nothing new should add as it’ll know it’s the same stuff due to the dual paths)
Hours, days, weeks later remove the old paths, update libraries
All good
Do I have that right? I have 45TB of media here so I don’t want to screw this up!
That’s generally correct. Though I’d recommend adding at least two steps:
Make a backup of your Plex database before beginning (perhaps your entire Plex data directory).
As part of your verification process, use the “Duplicates” filter (for at least your movies and TV episodes) to ensure nothing was mis-detected as duplicates.
Also be aware that some manual merging/splitting may still be required even if you follow the steps above perfectly, particularly if you find that you normally have to perform a lot of manual matching when adding content to your library.
Finally, there’s another method which is often recommended, if you’re comfortable with SQL:
