Hello ladies and gents
I moved my plex installation to a different location, so I backed up my old installation and copied it to the new system after installing plex there. Is it normal that plex has to re-add all metadata etc?
Under my friendslist I see two seperate plex servers to share:
Did I just lose all my watched progress etc?
Cheers
I’ve never done this, but you might want to take a look at this page and compare it to the steps you took. If everything is still intact in the original location, you may be able to try again.
I bet you forgot to copy the registry settings.
This way your PMS on the new machine got a new ‘machine identifier’. Thus you see now 2 servers, even though they share the same name.
The other thing is with your media files. They must be reachable under the same drive letter/share/folder name as on the old machine, or you indeed have to rescan your libraries again.
I’ve used the instructions of said page, but the result isnt quite the same…
Both machines are Docker/Linux machines, so no registry. Both use/used the same media path.
Any other ideas?
To get rid of the old Plex instance, you need to delete it from your device list.
But I also don’t know whats up with the metadata, maybe just a permission problem?
After the 3rd try of adding the old install to the new system I still didnt get the expected librarys…
Oh well, looks like my friends have to check their watched episodes manually…
I wouldn’t move my installation, I’d just recreate the libraries. It doesn’t take as much time as it used to.
Did you already tried to delete (create yourself a backup of it) the “preferences.xml”? Try to use the init wizard and see if plex finds your libraries.
