So I’m moving my PMS from my windows PC onto a NAS. I got all my media moved over and working fine under a different serverID. This would be fine for me but with my older relatives that I share my media with they will get lost trying to edit the home page to delete the old share and add the new libraries then move them to the top of PLEXs home screen…
I’d like to just retain my old server id “MachineIdentifier” on my new install. I’m ok if i loose all my watched and extra metadata. I just want it to be a seamless transition for my family members who are old and I cant go and help out with the changes.
So I did some reading and see that you need to:
Disable updates and deletes.
Stop both servers
copy MachineIdentifier, ProcessedMachineIdentifier,
from: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server
paste into: Preferences.xml
restart new plex, (in my case a Docker on Unraid.)
I did this but it kept the old server after restart.
No old server was shut down. After 4+ restarts of the new plex container, adding additional old keys; AnonymousMachineIdentifier & PlexOnlineToken to my NAS, with no additional luck… I did restart the old server and it switched the server name back.
Then you did something wrong, whatever you did.
I recommend you to set up an empty container and install a default Plex server setup in it.
claim it to your plex account.
Then inspect the Preferences.xml and look for differences with your edited version.
(of course the actual ID numbers will be different. I mean rather differences about missing parameters or different syntax.)
