I upgrade my hardware fairly frequently and am always faced with the daunting task of moving my Plex library to a new server while keeping the metadata, playlists, etc intact. Following the guides does allow me to do this, however, it is cumbersome and doesn’t always work. The last migration left me…

I have been wanting to rebuild my Windows 7 based media center PC (where my plex server runs) for more than a year, but have not wanted to deal with the process of migrating plex, so I keep kicking the can down the road. :slight_smile:

I believe that the meta data from the server stays with the file on your existing computer. So if you build a new machine or something. You should be good.

I’m right in the middle of migrating now and came here for this reason - I don’t mind having to re-scan the library (the paths will be different now anyway, so there isn’t going to be a way around that) and I don’t mind having to pull the data from the agents again, but I am having a hard time retai…

+1 to this. I’m in the process of trying to migrate my Plex Media Server onto a new HDD on the same machine. Luckily I still have access to the old HDD and can boot into it if needed, but I’ve been unable to copy over the Registry settings and such. I mainly care about having the server registry set…

I really like this idea (and liked the original post to make it count!) :wink: When I rebuilt my 1st Plex on an actual headless Linux server, I considered it’s fine to lose some data and manually fix some stuff. Since there’s more and more content which isn’t reflected on the file system (e.g. the…

Bit of a thread necro, but this is the newest feature request thread I can find on this subject. My PMS was originally runnng on a Win 10 box and was subsequently moved to a Synology NAS and now a FreeNAS box. Each time I’ve done this I’ve followed the instructions here and they have failed to work…

Yes. I am rebuilding my Playlists right now, I only have 614 albums/songs and it is taking me weeks. I know in the next year I am going to be moving my Plex Media Server to a new computer and will have to do this all over. We need a built in solution! I am fortunate in that I really only use Plex …

In the meantime somebody sneaked in a duplicate suggestion that has however made some extra votes (compared to this one). I suggest to close this thread for participants to comment/vote in the newer suggestion instead – this way, all votes will be behind the suggestion and not being distracted/disp…

[Feature Request] Option to Migrate Plex from Machine to Machine

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[Feature Request] Option to Migrate Plex from Machine to Machine

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