Hi, My apologies if this isn’t the place for this. Someone please tell me. I have a QNAP tvs-h1688x that is running PMS. I have QTS (the NAS OS) and PMS installed on the system volume (a RAID 1 NVME volume). My media files are stored on a RAID 6, 2 fault HDD volume. I also run a 4GB NVME read only…

You can let QTS do the move for you. ( PMS already supports doing this) The FAQ is here: [image] Qnap faq.....read me first! Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Q33: How to move PMS to a different Data Volume. On QNAP systems with more than one storage volume (DataVol1,…

Well that’s awesome! thank you Chuck! Follow-up what are the differences (in how plex runs and it’s stability) between doing this (migrating the entire app) and just relocating the library metadata and transcoding temps?

If you move just the metadata, leaving the app wherever it’s installed, you’ll have the following considerations. Storage PMS software (code) is less than 100 MB Metadata, for a medium sized installation, 10-50 GB. The actual media itself, 4+ (?) TB Performance: You’re talking about milli…

Awesome! Thank you for the detailed reply. this really helped! As a follow up since you seem incredibly knowledgable…I have another post… Migrating watch status I’m trying to give my son a separate full plex account. I’ve done that and added him to my home. Now I’m trying to merge his watch data fr…

[image] DF42: Now I’m trying to merge his watch data from his old managed account before I remove it. Any thoughts on how to do that? That’s a complex database editing task. To make it happen, Lookup the “Managed User” ID (local user ID) he has bow Find his full “Plex User” ID (plex.tv …

@DF42 [image] Migrating watch data from managed user to a new full Plex account home user General Discussions I have never done it, but I think Webtool-NG does this. https://github.com/WebTools-NG/WebTools-NG [Screenshot 2025-04-26 at 07.51.56]

Ok :slight_smile: thank you for the help Chuck :blush:

Trying this now. Webtools is having trouble accessing the user data

Moving Plex metadata

Plex Media Server

ChuckPa April 26, 2025, 4:42am 2

You can let QTS do the move for you.
( PMS already supports doing this)

The FAQ is here:

Is this what you’re thinking of?

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