I have been running plex for years now and my oldest daughter just moved out on her own. I gave her our account password so she can access plex on her tv and laptop from her new place; but I am really not thrilled about that solution since I don’t restrict home users with pins or anything (so she o…

I recently used this script to accomplish what you are describing. GitHub - cetteup/transfer-plex-user-viewstate: Transfer Plex viewstate information (watched/unwatched, view progress and ratings) between users I was able to migrate viewing history from a managed user to an independent friend ac…

Thanks I will have to study what your script is doing. I started poking around in the db and came to the conclusion that I could probably just do a simple update account_id = x where account_id = y on the metadata_item_views and metadata_item_settings tables after I have her create her new ‘friend’…

Migrate managed user to 'Friend'

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Migrate managed user to 'Friend'

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