Merge several libraries into one

HI all,
I’d like to be able to merge some of my movie or serie libraries (that I did before the user accounts implementation, like one for adults and one for kids) into one without to have to re-scrap all my movies.

Why?
Because now with the accounts implementation, I can have one movie or serie library, and restrict some of the content based on age or genre, user accounts, etc. No need to create different libraries anymore !

The issue is that today if I add the paths of the 2nd library to the first library, Plex is scraping again all my movies or episodes like if they were new. I would lose all the modifications I did (like posters or genre, etc.)

This feature should be “very quick” to code as it would be a simple change of library ID in the Plex database for all movies of library 2 with the ID of library 1 (plus the movie paths to be transferred).

Today, I have:

  • Adults movies
  • Kids Movies
  • Adults series
  • Kids series
  • Recorded TV shows

Where I would like to have only:

  • Movies
  • Series

Without to rescrap and index everything again (1000+ movies…)

Thank you all !

Nobody interested in this ?

I am.

I originally setup ‘kids’, ‘movies’, ‘tv’, and them my account with all of them… Now that I realize the kids aren’t going to select tv shows on their own, I figure I’ll just use the same account for our house… However, the problem is that all my tv stats are in ‘tv’ including whats on deck, etc. I don’t want to lose that.

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