Hello,
The TL;DR version: The custom thumbnails in Plex Data’s Photo folder: can I extract/export them back into a form that is easily navigable so that I can add them to a new server running on my Shield?
The long version:
I’ve got a fairly beefy photo library that I’ve been building for years organised into various folders. Because I never liked the way Plex would just randomly pick an image from a folder and then even more randomly decide which part of that image it would display as the thumbnail, I started making and adding my own. The library looked better, and it was an easier way to get the gist of what was in each folder.
Unfortunately, due to the whole energy price thing in the UK, my Plex server is on the expensive side to run. I’ve decided to use my Nvidia Shield as a second ‘lite’ server to access my most used content on my limited NAS space, and keep the current server hibernated until those times I need it.
One thing I would like to keep ‘always on’ is my photo library, but unfortunately, I lost a lot of the custom folder/album thumbs I’d created. However, they of course do still exist in the Plex Server data folder but not in any easily navigable format - gibberish folder names, no obvious rhyme or reason to the structure, and obviously all as files without extension.
So, is there any way I can extract/export them from there back into a structure that makes sense so that I can easily copy them to the photo library on the shield?
