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@soulmists

That’s very unfortunate you made a mess which needn’t have happened.

I have written several How-To’s to perform the migration and how to repair damage caused when folks hit repair.

Please read below. ASK QUESTIONS before taking any actions.

It comes down to this:

  1. Do you have Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server still existing ?

  2. If you do –
    – UNINSTALL + ERASE option to remove the errant DSM 7 installation.

  3. Install any version higher than 1.24.2.4973 (current Public release will do)

  4. Now let it install, taking however long it needs – DO NOT RESTART DSM.
    ( Use Resource Monitor if you need to watch “PlexMediaServer” doing its conversion tasks )

  5. When complete, Check the Plex shared folder. If you STILL have Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml and all your metadata,
    – UNiNSTALL + ERASE again . This is the 2nd rogue install which can happen with “Repair” but this step does not happen often. BE CAREFUL.

  6. On this third installation, you should now have a clean system and be performing the final / real migration

  7. Plex/Migration.log will contain all the logging details of the steps it’s performing. The final step is “Cleaning: /volume1/Plex”. When that completes
    – Plex share will be empty
    – New PlexMediaServer shared folder will exist which contains ONLY your server data

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