I want to take all the files for the media server, like the information and covers, from windows and transfer them to ubuntu I tried taking the files and pasting them into ubuntu's plex folder but it wouldn't do anything I checked the permissions on the folder and it's owned by plex, but I can't fig…

You would have a far easier time to have a central location for your media files and have the Windows PC (If that is your new media server) rescan and redownload the meta data. Trying to shoe one database between OS/Architectures is not necessary. In theory it's possible but the time it takes is not…

Moving Plex Media Server between Windows and Linux is possible. I have a medium sized collection. My wife and I have spent days organizing the information. I didn’t want to lose this effort. The first few tries were moving the Plex Media Server folder to the Linux Plex Media Server folder. It did…

Sooo U R saying that you really did not have to move any data as the mount triggered a rescan anyway??

I’m not sure. I didn’t try it. I wanted all the posters and the custom entered data, which was retained, even after Plex completed the scan.

@chuckconway said: Moving Plex Media Server between Windows and Linux is possible. I looked closer at the files in the Plex Media Server folder. Some the folders had OS specific files in them. I deleted those folders. I also deleted all the Cache folders. This left seven folders: Media, Metadata,…

Awesome! Just did the same from my windows 10 to a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra drive. I followed your (b3i2g1) instructions but tried zipping the folders first as I add almost 2GB of files to transfer. Only worked after copying them across without compression. Used an intermediate shared folder on the …

Thank you! But where did you copy those 4 folders into on your Linux box? I’ll be using Debian as my destination server in my migration.

Was this link not helpful? https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/?_ga=2.123451403.1051407971.1564056567-1306535218.1564056567 "… See our Where is the Plex Media Server data directory located? for details on where to find the Plex Media Server data directory. …

If you’re migrating from Windows to Linux, copying the registry would be useless.

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jjrjr1 November 7, 2016, 3:57am 6

Must have worked then
Good work…

Trying to move my server from a pc to a rasberry pi

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