# Moving Metadata from windows to Linux question,

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**Created:** [January 18, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-metadata-from-windows-to-linux-question/771527 "2022-01-18T10:30:35Z")\
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When you powered up for the first time on Linux, did you do the following:

- Made sure that `Settings/Library/Empty trash automatically after every scan` was **NOT** selected?
- Did you edit your libraries, and added the new path to your medias, and kept the old windows path as well?
- And after that, did a `Scan library files`
- After that, verified that your media now had two files, one working and the other showing as `Unavailable`
- Then did an `Empty Trash`
- Then removed the old windows path from the libraries

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