Does plex natively support NFOs nowadays or do you need a third party plugin?

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I used plex for a while but moved away and am thinking of coming back. But i want my NFO files to be used, natively if possible. Just checking to see if that is possible nowadays. Thanks

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For movies it will use an NFO file natively, but not for TV Shows
See: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/969170/#Comment_969170

More info here as well:

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Thank you.

maybe I don’t need to worry about NFOs. How does my library metadata get saved with plex? The big one I want to be able to save and restore is played/unplayed status. Maybe Plex’s solution is better than NFOs. Do you have any insight or advice you can give me on that?

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@axelaguado@gmail.com said:
Thank you.

maybe I don’t need to worry about NFOs. How does my library metadata get saved with plex? The big one I want to be able to save and restore is played/unplayed status. Maybe Plex’s solution is better than NFOs. Do you have any insight or advice you can give me on that?

plex uses a database, that you can restore.
I wouldnt use NFOs

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where is the database stored? Can I put it in, say, my dropbox (to take advantage of automatic versioning)?

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@axelaguado@gmail.com said:
where is the database stored? Can I put it in, say, my dropbox (to take advantage of automatic versioning)?

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201100678-Repair-a-Corrupt-Database

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202915258-Where-is-the-Plex-Media-Server-data-directory-located-

You could use dropbox to save the data in those locations.