I’m trying to enable or share my PlexData folder. It was never auto configured upon install. I was under the impression if you have newer than 1.19x is would do this on QTS or QTS Hero. I’m looking for guidance so I don’t corrupt my install with an old package like Create a share for Plex Library Di…

how about trying this a simpler way? Here’s the TL;DR form: On windows: Settings - Server - Library Turn off EVERYTHING (uncheck the boxes) SAVE Stop Plex On QNAP: Stop Plex Open File Station → Plex Data → Plex Media Server See all the files in there Delete it all — EXCEPT – Preferences…

Makes complete sense. Im going with Thin, even if its not quite as fast as some say. Not worth the hassle.

Yeah I hope to re-map the folders as they were. I will create them as close to how they were on Windows in ZFS. It was a flat folder structure not deep. Never heard of marking them watched interesting trick. ‘Hows To’s’ are great I’ll take what I can get. I have custom tags I want to keep as I’m su…

Here is the How-To for regular desktop Linux. For you, You’ll use ZIP to make the backup instead of tar QNAP can unzip that via the gui. It might make sense to perform the move & unpack in the Public shared folder Once unpacked, moving the contents of the “Plex Media Server” folder there into th…

Hi Chuck, I copied over the Media and Metadata almost 5gb but After I restarted PMS and rebooted the NAS it still shows the 2 original movies I added for a test. It should show several hundred. I figured it didn’t need the logs or cache. Also the strange thing is my Thin share doesn’t show much % …

You’re using ZFS which compresses all the files Regarding using PlexData, You need to transfer the server as a complete unit. Copying just the metadata will not give you the results you seek because all the linkages are in the database. If you’re going to copy the Windows instance into PlexData,…

Ok, I did at 15GB. Not sure what else to trigger or allow QuTS to see the data I copied over? I dont have compression on for this share. But maybe it not suppose to be in localhost? preferences I left since I figured it would mess things up. Any post on “You need to transfer the server as a complete…

Makes me wonder If I will be able to backup the new server in the future. I made sure I signed out of both and had the services stopped per the instructions. Then signed back in and reclaimed the server and hoping I would see new libraries and content that I would need to re-link.

You see how the data exists ? PlexData/Plex Media Server → (the real live data) What you copy over must be a perfect structural and naming match in all regards. Windows is not upper/lower sensitive but Linux is. Are you running into that?

I copied ‘as is’ from windows. I just deleted the sub folders in Media & Metadata on the NAS share to see what would happen. Nothing was affected, same two titles show. So that tells me the server isnt looking at this share even though its has correct folder structure that was auto configured as des…

Nothing would be effected because “Metadata” and “Media” don’t provide anything unless the Database (Plex Media Server / Plug-in Support / Databases is looking for them. This is why I say you must copy the entire server instance (contents of “Plex Media Server”) as a block for it to work as you w…

PlexData share under 1.23x was never auto shared upon install. Migration successful from Windows

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ChuckPa May 30, 2021, 7:29pm 29

If you want to read the initial announcement thread regarding the PlexData share, it is here.

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PlexData share under 1.23x was never auto shared upon install. Migration successful from Windows

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