# Offline/Archived Media

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/offline-archived-media/718946>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [May 29, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/offline-archived-media/718946 "2021-05-29T00:09:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/offline-archived-media/718946/2 "2021-05-29T00:27:36Z")

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While this discussion occasionally pops up… the related feature suggestion didn’t catch much attention – you’re welcome to vote/comment in that thread to give it another try (this is by the way the suggestion all those closed/duplicate ones should be pointing at)

> [@Move Watched Content to Archive](https://forums.plex.tv/t/move-watched-content-to-archive/85027):
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> Hi Boys and girls, as the title suggests, i would like an automated way to move my watched tv shows to a different disk, this is because i am running out of space on my tv shows disk, however i have lots of spare ones that i would like to archive watched shows to. I started to write a powershell script to achieve this but my skills very quickly ran out. I have the very latest PHT running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard box. Any help would be appreciated.

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I suppose the key reasons why many users don’t care are:

1. many/most Plex users are hoarders (in a very positive meaning) 😉
2. you can relatively easily replace your actual media file with a dummy one
  - **simple approach:** create a text file, maybe with the path where you moved the file… name it as the original file (incl. the file extension) and replace it → Plex will still recognize the file; after analyzing it will of course find no more technical details (e.g. resolution, bitrate) and it won’t be able to play
  - **nerd mode:** some users even create a tiny placeholder video (less than 1 MB in size)… this one will even play, though the technical details will match the placeholder video (not that of the original file)

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