Hello, I have my son as a managed user in my Plex Home. He’s got a 7+ y watch history. I recently created him a separate full Plex account (so he could login independently at college). I invited that new account into my home. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to merge the 2 accounts. I tried usi…

Only through direct database editing. [image] Added an existing user and all my managed users disappeared!?!?!?!?! General Discussions Older thread but I thought I add to it for anyone else. Awhile ago I accepted an invite to another Plex Home. The mistake was mine as I …

Thank you. It seems the situation you reference is slightly different than what I propose…In yours the managed users disappeared. In mine I’m wondering if I can merge a new user and an existing managed or export the managed watch history to the new user. Are you saying the answer for mine is the sam…

It’s the same - swapping one user ID for another in the database.

I have never done it, but I think Webtool-NG does this. GitHub - WebTools-NG/WebTools-NG: WebTools Next Generation for Plex [Screenshot 2025-04-26 at 07.51.56]

Thank you :slight_smile: This seems like it would have been a great option BUT It’s not working. It can’t seem to access the uses when on the view state copy screen. I’ve installed it on a PC on the same local network as my PMS which is running on a QNAP NAS.

@dane22 was one of the people who wrote the app and maybe can help out.

Make sure WebTools-NG has it’s log level set to debug, then reproduce and upload the log

ok it’s set to debug but where does the log file end up?

Please see: Troubleshooting · WebTools-NG/WebTools-NG Wiki · GitHub

Thank you. Here is the log. I think I did it correctly WebTools-NG.log (24.6 KB)

Migrating watch data from managed user to a new full Plex account home user

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