Moving plex library to a new drive without losing watched and metadata info

[OttoKerner]

If you are changing folder names, there is only one way: to directly edit the database.

[HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way

[Moderator edit:] The description of the alternative method is given in the 10th post below: [HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way - #10 by jelwell People ask all the time about moving media content. I think the reason they ask is because I think this article is misleading: You can’t move content to a new location and expect any of your manual changes to apply to the moved content. If your files are all named perfectly, then sure, Plex will simply rematch you…

But this way is not for everyone. So it is best not to edit folder names if you have lots of manually edited metadata.