I’ve got a relatively large collection (over 2,000 movies, and 30,000 episodes), and I need to get the server off of my single-spinner windows pro box, and moved over to docker. I’m not concerned with moving the [metadata] images, but I do want to make sure my watched status and the watched status for my shared users comes over. The entire library can re-scrape and that’s fine, but I need those statuses to come. I’ve seen several tutorials for moving the meta-data (but it seems to be ALL the metadata, including the images) this turns out to be a tons of stuff, and I cancelled the zip operation after an hour. Is there a way to move just the watched statuses of ALL the users?
BUT, here’s the rub:
If, on the old server, not all your movies were matched with the same metadata agent, at least some of them will change their “identity” on the new server. Which makes the “watched” status that is still stored in the database obsolete.
If you know your way around a SQL database, you could go and edit the database, to change the old Windows-style file paths (D:\Movies.…) to their proper Linux-style counterparts which are valid on the new server. This makes it more likely for the items to retain their “match”.
See [HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way - #10 by jelwell
