I can’t (don’t want to) do the simple route of keeping the same filepath, since the original drive is still in use.
So I’ll follow the steps to move content to a new location. Easy enough.
On the step Update the Library, it says “The server will examine the contents of the new location and associate the content with the existing media items in your library.”
It does not. I end up with two copies of everything. So… I mean… what gives?
Could it be your old server was still using some legacy agent (or hadn’t refreshed the library metadata since you upgraded to the current-generation ones)?
If so, Plex will recognize the files as different movies and not merge them / treat them as the same.
Well it looks like it was using the new agent, who knows if it didn’t refresh?
I sort of accidentally removed the old folder from the library and seem to have lost my metadata anyway so I just have to re-do it now anyway. Grumble.
Well silly me I forgot I still have to do the same thing for another library.
So with my Movies library: It’s using Plex Movie Agent, made sure it updated metadata, did the migration - and most of my entries don’t get duplicated. But some do. These seem to be the ones I manually set metadata for - some that matched the wrong movie. That’s basically the reason I want to do this migration, so that I keep the metadata that I can’t just automatically download. And those are the ones that don’t work.
