Moving Plex Server from MacBook to Windows PC

Hi All,

I am trying to move my Plex server from my MacBook laptop to Windows PC. I have multiple forums and tried many ways of doing this but to no avail. If anyone has any tips or very detailed step by steps or a video tutorial I can watch it would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve done the copy everything from Mac to a hard drive to the replace the content on the Plex server on the pc but nothing.

Help anyone who has more knowledge on this topic then I seem to do.

The issue when moving from 1 OS to another are the file paths. PMS stores the location of your media in an internal database using the file path for the OS. When you move to another OS, you can’t always reuse the same path so now everything gets unlinked.

The fix is to manually edit the database and change the paths. Otherwise you’ll have to recreate the libraries.

Read the while thread, but the steps in this specific comment are what you need to do. [HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way

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