What happened: I seen this serie and I want to save it might I want to see it again without much hassle, so I moved the folder and its content to another hard drive in my Windows 2012 server. Unfortunately, when it went there, the status of ‘watched’ had changed back to ‘unwatched’.
Now I have been reading some other forum topics but did not find a fair solution. I am willing to test the theory as far as shutting down plexserver, move stuff, and start it again, but then it is not only in another folder on another hard drive, but also in the Plex library in a ‘reserve-tv-series’ folder, instead of the ‘tv-series’ it was.
I am hoping for a Administrator way to let Plex do the honour by moving content, so that it goes smooth. Plex Administrator has also the right to delete content, so why not move or copy…
I do not want to force you into making something, but only if there is a positive side to this action, and the devs are agreed, then be my guest, make more users happy, including me…
Why oh why would you move content?
Copy… Let Plex see the duplicates, make sure everything is shown as duplicate, delete source data, empty trash. All watched status remain.
Yeah sorry having reread what I typed I came across as rather snarky, so apologies.
Another possible way is actually to move (absolutely make sure emptying trash is disabled in the server settings)
It really isn’t the best way of doing it though and as a side note unless you make changes to your media regularly that setting should be disabled anyway.
I still think copying is a better option evn if you have to do it in chunks as your space permits.
Thanks so far, empty trash is disabled and also owner is allowed to delete items… I watch a lot on my couch where also two little dogs slide next to me, in any unguarded moment i leave my bluetooth keyboard to control Plex (Raspberry Pi 3) on the couch next to me, and a dog wants to slide to my side, it happened that he just walked over the keyboard…(almost deleting things, scared me to !) So, trying to learn the dog to read:roll_eyes:, or avoid stepping on it, but failsafe this through permission is a better and safe way… Those cute dogs of mine…
I do about the same thing, keep new files on one HD and then when i’m satisfied with it, I move it to a permanent HD, I have each HD movie folders listed within Plex library.
ie…
HD1 has a folder named hd1_movie
HD2 has a folder named hd2_movie
+more
That way Plex keeps track of them,
I just move the movie folder and it’s content from the HD1 movie folder to another HD movie folder.
Plex see the new file and adds it location then it removes the old location…
I’ve been doing this for years never had a problem so far…
I do the same for each library category…
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) So, trying to learn the dog to read:roll_eyes:, or avoid stepping on it, but failsafe this through permission is a better and safe way… Those cute dogs of mine…
