Hi all,
I’ve just migrated my Plex to some new hardware and I’m moving from Plex for Windows to Plex Docker.
I’ve successfully migrated everything over but the only niggly thing that bothers me is that it shows in all of my plex clients as a completely new server meaning I’ll have to ask all my guests to re-pin stuff to the side.
Is there a way to avoid this? Is there something I can tweak to make it so that Plex knows it’s actually the same instance not a new instance?
Export the Plex branch of the Windows registry. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201539237-backing-up-plex-media-server-data/
Copy the Preferences.xml file from the Plex data folder of your Linux setup.
Open both in a text editor.
Compare them and copy over all values from the .reg which have to do with “identifier”, to the same-named XML properties in the Preferences.xml file.
Stop Plex server on Linux
Copy the modified Preferences.xml file, replacing the original one.
Make sure that the Windows server is not running and will never do run again!
Start Plex server.
Following this, it can happen that the server claim token is made invalid and deleted from plex.tv
Which makes it necessary to claim the Docker server again.
(Unfortunately I don’t really know Linux or Docker, so I can’t help you with that.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/204281528-why-am-i-locked-out-of-server-settings-and-how-do-i-get-in/ might be of use, and maybe also GitHub - ChuckPa/UserCredentialReset: User Credential Reset utility for Plex )
This worked a treat thank you very much
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