Convert Plex Media Server Snap to native Plex Media Server

[kevin_duerst_yahoo_com]

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Server Version#: 1.22.3.4523
Player Version#: 4.54.5

I originally installed PMS from a snap. Now I understand that was not a good idea because it wont update. I’m looking to Xfer all of my Metadata and other data from the snap install to a native install on the same server. I did go over the previous topic at

Plex Media Server not updating on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS)

Server Version#: 1.22.3.4523 (or 1.24.0.4930-ab6e1a058?!?) Hi all, Hoping to get some help as, when I was looking to enable a new feature (sonic analysis for Plexamp), I noticed my Plex Media Server was pretty out of date so doesn’t support it yet! I’m running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on a NUC and Plex has been working pretty flawlessly for a while, but viewing the PMS web dashboard on the NUC it says it’s running version 1.22.3.4523, whereas I’ve run commands to update the version and when I check…

here is the output from ps -ef | grep -i plex

kevin@NAS-PLEX:~/Desktop$ ps -ef | grep -i plex
avahi 1020 1 0 Aug18 ? 00:00:40 avahi-daemon: running [NAS-PLEX.local]
root 1100 1 0 Aug18 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /snap/plexmediaserver/211/wrapper.sh
root 1338 1100 0 Aug18 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /snap/plexmediaserver/211/wrapper.sh
root 1339 1338 0 Aug18 ? 01:31:07 ./Plex Media Server
root 1559 1339 0 Aug18 ? 00:08:14 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /snap/plexmediaserver/211/Resources/Plug-ins-d0ce30438/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.22.3.4523-d0ce30438 /snap/plexmediaserver/211/Resources/Plug-ins-d0ce30438/System.bundle
root 1990 1339 0 Aug18 ? 00:09:56 /snap/plexmediaserver/211/Plex Tuner Service /snap/plexmediaserver/211/Resources/Tuner/Private /snap/plexmediaserver/211/Resources/Tuner/Shared 1.22.3.4523-d0ce30438 32600
kevin 129349 129339 0 18:13 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i plex
kevin@NAS-PLEX:~/Desktop$

[kevin_duerst_yahoo_com]

My question is do I install native PMS then xfer the meta data and the other date to the new install, then remove the snap install?

[gregcagle]

I think you will need to install the native version first so it doesn’t overwrite the metadata later. I had the native version already installed anyway, so I shut the snap version down, copied the data to the right place for the native version, removed the snap version, then started up the native version.

[kevin_duerst_yahoo_com]

I backed up the PlexmediaServer file in VAR, then removed all PMS installs. Downloaded PMS from Plex.tv and De-packaged and installed Native PMS.
Now the only thing that is missing is my Playlist for music. I did not copy the old data folders into the new plex because I wanted PMS to use the agent on all the movies and tv shows.
Is there a way to find the playlist files in the data files i backed up?