# Feature Request - Plex Server Library Management

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169 "2022-02-01T20:27:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jason705](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jason705](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jason705)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169/1 "2022-02-01T20:27:07Z")

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Ok - Here is my wish.

Movie is on server and working %100 great. For some reason, the Movie needs to be relocated. Such as maybe it has become a classic or you just want to make it available for certain users.  
My suggestion is for some sort of management where you can click on the options and “Move Item” to a different library without losing any play stats etc.

Th current process is move in the file system and rescan with Plex. However, this loses all history of the item and flags it as just added again.

Thanks for a fantastic product

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169/2 "2022-02-01T20:29:26Z")

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You can already move media without losing your watch history.  
The related support article describes how you can do that for entire libraries (library sections) – the same will work if you move a single file / movie folder.

There’s an actual feature suggestion asking to support this via the user interface of Plex (as per your post)

> [@\[Feature Request\] Moving media between libraries without losing metadata using UI](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-moving-media-between-libraries-without-losing-metadata-using-ui/587567):
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> Yes, there is a [How To](https://forums.plex.tv/t/howto-plex-database-modification-moving-media-the-right-wrong-way/126701) and even a [Support Article](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154537-move-media-content-to-a-new-location/) but both don’t always work (especially keeping edited metadata) - or require many manual steps. Judging from the years of support requests/questions about this topic, there’s enough interest to warrant a renewed look at this. Can’t this be added to the User Interface to make it easier? Pretty please? It will be nice to finally get a feature that makes it easier to manage libraries for a change!

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**Author:** ![jason705](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jason705](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jason705)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169/3 "2022-02-01T21:07:36Z")

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I figured there would already be a topic but wasnt able to source it when I posted.

It would make SO much more sense to have this feature built into Plex. I don’t believe any competition has this feature built in at this time. I did look at the How To and the Support article but, honestly, it is a PITA to have to do that in order to keep metadata. In my case, I said the heck with it and just removed, scanned, relocated and rescanned. Way way less work. It would just be a cool feature if it could be built in to relocate the media and move it within Plex to correct library.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169/4 "2022-02-01T21:10:52Z")

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I take it the majority of users has no use case where they keep moving items between libraries. But that’s just my 2ct 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-server-library-management/774169/5 "2022-05-02T21:11:09Z")

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