I would like to see Plex hold onto meta-data and use it again instead of re-downloading it when I move a movie from one library to another. Yesterday I broke up my movies library into separate libraries for kids, teens and mature viewers. I did not add, remove, rename or change in any other way any of the media files. I only moved them to different directories. And I created three new libraries and removed the one old library.
When I updated the new libraries:
All meta-data for all movies was re-downloaded from the Internet.
I had to re-match several movies that don't match well.
I had to reset the posters for movies that I had changed.
I had to redo all the manual changes I made to meta-data.
And it triggered many hours of background transcoding.
If the Plex server has knowledge of an existing movie, it should retain that information through changes.
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