[HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way

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Hi everybody,

if you want to move media to an other location and you want to keep your items in PMS library intact (with all of your manually edited metadata) follow these steps:

  1. create an empty new folder where you will migrate your media
  2. add that newly created folder to the library (after you’re done it will automatically scan that empty folder)
  3. move (do not copy!) media to that new folder
  4. scan
  5. done

the trick is that you can move around media files among those folders as long the folders are indexed in the library and you respect folders-subfolders structure.

i’m not sure why this method is not an official plex method, it works flawlessly.

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