Everything I’ve read so far says probably not but I thought I’d ask in case I missed it. I want to move a dozen flac libraries to another drive while leaving mp3 libraries on the original drive, then move hi-res libraries to yet a third drive; all without the need for re-scanning the ones moved as I’ve added a lot of information to them that would otherwise not be transferred… I’m running out of space with everything all on the same drive.
Thanks.
There is not something like that the registry settings.
back up the database in case of mistakes you can restore it then, do what is outlined here. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154537-move-media-content-to-a-new-location/
Ok. I guess want I wanted to do isn’t possible as this is creating new libraries and deleting the olds ones so nothing gets preserved. I should have been more clear. I was hoping there was a way to actually clone libraries to a new drive without losing any edits done.
I do not know if it still works or not as the last time I moved libraries was a long time ago.
What I did was make sure that empty trash after scan was OFF. and then shut down Plex and move the libraries as I wanted then I added the new (moved) libraries without changing anything else and without deleting the old library.
Then I restarted Plex and allowed it to “import” the folders into the library. After that finished I had two entries for most of the files.
Then I removed the old folders from the libraries.
After that completed the files were perfectly happy in their new home and all my earlier manual changes were still in place.
While that operation did take some time it was not much of my time.
Really all Plex did was discover that the files had a new patch.
After everything stabilized (It took about 1.5 days but I have a quite large library and my server, at that time, was just barely up to the task of running Plex,) I went to the libraries and I removed all the old paths.
Then I manually emptied trash for all my libraries and turned back on the “automatic” empty trash after scan.
I run with that automatic feature turned on but those that do not have near 100% reliability of access to the files should not allow Plex to empty trash automatically.
As I said it was a long time ago and something could have changed that invalidates this method but, back then, it really made relocating libraries easy, somewhat time consuming but easy.
No it isn’t. It is switching the folder location of a library. A folder is not a library.
Thanks to both whom replied. I could never find any clarity from searching the forums so this helps a lot.
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