Hello, I want to reorganize my library and some of the items need to go into a new library but on a few of them I added the metadata (images, titles, description) by hand and I don’t want to lose them or having to redo the info by hand again. Is there any possibility to do this? Thank you!

[image] Plexhilarated: I’ve done this many times as I shuffled my Libraries, Content, and Drives… the key here (as @OttoKerner has highlighted in bold) is to “ copy ” the media into the new location… let Plex find both instances of the media and it will associate one with the other (keeping your…

I would like to follow up on how-can-you-move-items-between-plex-libraries-without-losing-the-metadata Updating section_locations is not enough (at least today), you have to update media_parts as well with something like : UPDATE `media_parts` SET `file`= REPLACE(`file`, '/…

moved your post to the existing topic and reopened it.

The initial suggestion did not work for me. I copied the data to a new share. I added this share to the library and performed a rescan. I verified that Plex matched the files correctly (episodes had 2 files according to plex). I then removed the old files/folders of the series and performed another…

Empty Trash Automatically shouldn’t have mattered, unless you Moved instead of Copied. There is another reason this may not have worked - if the matching agents of the old and the new are different. Then there’s the old - files named and structured so poorly - Plex can’t tell what’s what. <----if …

I mean…this doesn’t make sense. It was all correctly matched before I deleted anything. And I for sure did not have to use custom settings for these series, that’s usually only necessary for a few movies. And the link to that other thread does not help as they are saying this doesn’t work properly …

If you saw the 2 then Plex did ti correctly. Removing the old files and rescanning should not have changed the metadata. Can you provide exact steps on what you did?

Copied select folders of series to new share (same structure, i.e. root folder sees exactly the same thing) Added the new share as a second folder to an existing library in Plex Rescanned Library in Plex Verified that the episodes were showing 2 files - also, no new series or anything appeared, so …

Hmm. You did get 1 step wrong. Not sure if it would have caused the issue you saw. Deleted the series folders that I copied in the original share Instead of that, you should have removed the old share from the library. If you deleted the files but left the folder linked to the library, your se…

How can you move items between Plex libraries without losing the metadata?

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There’s a whole discussion on doing this through SQL. [HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way

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How can you move items between Plex libraries without losing the metadata?

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