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 with certain video files that I could not dissociate an incorrect match no matter how many times I took it away, re-added the video while emptying trash, and re-scanning. Some large 4K video files that were migrated don’t even let me change the “watched” status. These are just a few of the issues I have encountered while migrating Plex from one system to another. The bottom line is, I would like an option to do this automatically if the Plex app can detect the new machine is running with the latest version of Plex installed. In my fantasy Plex app, I would have the option in the server menu to migrate. That migration should give me the choice of moving the media files for me or, check to see if the files are already there.
