Hi all,
My Win 10 Plex Server crashed. Most likely a mother board issue, and my winload.efa got corrupted. To avoid a long downtime on my Plex Server I got my self a new server with Win 10 Pro.
I mounted the old hard drive as secondary disk in the new server. I watched some Youtube videos on how to move Plex to another server. After going through the steps I can not see that it picking up my old libraries.
What I did:
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Installed Win 10 Pro:
The username that I created was not the same as on the old server. Not sure if the will give problems when it comes to access rights, ownership etc…
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Fetch the old Plex info in the old registry file on the old disk:
Started regedit as admin. File/load hive. Browsed to disk#2:\users<old_name>\NTUSER.DAT and confirmed. Gave it a name “_old_plex”. Now I see the plex registry entries under my HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_old_plex\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server.
I right click on the “Plex Media Server” in the left window and choose export. I save it “Plex Media Server.reg” on my desktop.
Trying to merge it with my new windows registry fails with “Cannot read the registry”. A closer look by editing the reg file on my desktop shows me that it is using a user that is not known in my new system. So I change the 2 lines that have HKEY_USERS_old_plex\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server.
Now the merge is working without a problem.
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Zip the old Plex data:
On the old disk#2 I browse to disk2:\users<old-name>\appdata\local. Here I see the folder Plex Media Server. I zipped that entire folder and stored it on my desktop.
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Download and installed Plex on my new server disk#1:
After install, I did not launch the app. I unzipped the Plex Media Server file (from my desktop) to disk1:\users<new-name>\appdata\local. Now I have disk1:\users<new-name>\appdata\local\plex media server.
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Reboot server:
to activate the registry changes
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launch Plex Media Server:
It knew my username and logged in without any authentication. That gave me the impression that the info in the reg file was read. But the libraries are not there. It does see another test Plex server on my network. Exit Plex.
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start looking for possible mistakes I can have made:
Something I noticed is that the new Plex install did not create the typical “Plex Media Server” folder under C:\users<new-user>\appdata\local. It did however create a Plex folder. In the plex folder I see cache, logs, Plex Media Server and QtWebEngine. I did not have that on my old disk#2.
Also the registry file has something odd. Besides the Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server and Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server\WinSparkle folders under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software, it also shows a folder “plex.tv”. I did not have that on my old registry.
When I start my new Plex Server, settings, I see the test server is listed. But the new server is not “created”. I was expecting that I get my old main screen from the AMD-A10 server, but it doesn’t. Under More I only see the test server (located on another machine in the local network).
The fact that I see local appdata folders and registry entries that are not mentioned in the Plex youtube videos, does this mean that the latest updated Plex installer has a different setup? And that this is causing my issues? Or am I missing something.
Did I copied/restored my old data to the correct places?
Looking forward to your comments.
- this is result of deleting Plex Server and,yes,I have full Admin privileges and changed file from Read only but it won’t go.
. Thank you for your input.
