Migrating plex metadata - how to confirm it was successful?

I would think it’s 100% safe to start removing the old locations now…

Take your time, removing one at a time,
As you edit each section & save the changes,

  • Scan files (let it finish)
  • Empty Trash.
  • If nothing disappears – you’re good.

If it does disappear, because the bundles still exist, it will be able to pull the info + history back in. (a little trick due to how the timing works)

Thanks, I will try this when I get home tonight. I was noticing an issue last night where some old files were detected as “recently added” and it would not apply the correct poster. I’m hoping this will be fixed after I rescan libraries tonight.

So far no issues after removing the old path so that is great. For some reason though, it does not detect new files added to the new NAS unless I manually run a library scan.

The option to “scan my library automatically” IS supposed to work on Ubuntu right? It was working fine on the old Plex install on the Synology. I turned off “scan my library periodically” but that didn’t seem to make any difference.

Rebooted the NUC as well.

“Automatically detect changes” does not work across network mounts.

Neither NFS nor SMB support notifying a client mount of server-side changes

The Linux kernel notification service can only detect changes for those files directly under its control.

If the server is running on Synology, and files are changes on the Syno, it will detect that. The same is true of the Ubuntu Linux host.

Good to know! So I guess I’ll just turn on the “scan periodically” option. I’ll just have it run hourly instead of daily.

Thanks for all your help on this. Will continue to monitor over the next few days but it is looking good so far now.

I have to do the same for my NUC.

I’ve configured it to:

  1. Periodic - every 15
  2. Partial Scan - enabled

This makes it run as quickly as possible.

If 15 minutes works for you, then I’ll do the same :slight_smile:

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