# Moving library from Windows to Linux

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-library-from-windows-to-linux/466896>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-windows, server-linux\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-library-from-windows-to-linux/466896 "2019-09-26T12:11:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![aurevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@aurevo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/aurevo)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-library-from-windows-to-linux/466896/1 "2019-09-26T12:11:28Z")

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Hello everybody,

I want to migrate my Plex server from Windows 10 to an Plex on Openflixr (Ubuntu 18.04)

I tried the following steps:

- Stop Plex Server on the Windows system.
- Stop Plex Server on the Linux system.
- Moved the folders Media, Metadata, Plug-Ins, Plug-Ins Support via zipping to the new server and extract into the correct folders.
- Permissions changed to plex:plex.
- Plex started on the new server.
- Without login in and not connection my new server to Plex account I added the previous libraries with the settings from the old server
- Update library
- Login and connect to Plex account

The problem is, that I don’t get my play status and all the metadata and thumbnails are downloaded new.

Have I forgotten a step, or executed something in the wrong order?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![psycik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@psycik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/psycik)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-library-from-windows-to-linux/466896/2 "2019-09-26T19:21:53Z")

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When you started the linux PMS, didn’t the the existing libraries already exist?

I tool the entire Windows Plex Media Server directory and put it in the relevant linux /Library/Application Data/Plex Media Server (or some such).

Mine did when I did exactly as you did (I went Windows to dockerised linux). All I had to do was go to each library and change the windows path to the linux equivalent (initially leaving both, then once it had scanned, I removed the windows path).

First connection it wanted a sign in.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-library-from-windows-to-linux/466896/3 "2019-12-25T19:21:57Z")

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