I have been using Plex server for about 9 years or so with almost zero issues. The question i have is i am installing a new computer that will be running my plex server. I have many libraries with well over 10K movies and shows, i have about 30TB of data. As we all know when you add a new movie some…

Here you go… https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

TY i will give that a try but when it rescans the libraries with the old data, i am hoping this will not mess up the matches, i did this once before many years ago like this and when i got to the part to rescan it unmatched and rematched everything all wrong…

[image] Backup Win7 Restore to Win10? Desktops & Laptops Do you have room (and the budget) for an additional hard drive or SSD? If you do disable automatic and periodic library updates in Plex. Disable automatic emptying of the trash bin in Plex. add the drive to your …

Does it matter that i am using win 10 and going win 11? is it the same procedure?

The differences between W10 and W11 are practically insignificant for Plex server.

Reinstalling Plex on a new computer, how to keep my metadata

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Reinstalling Plex on a new computer, how to keep my metadata

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