Server Version#:1.18.5.2309-f5213a238 Player Version#: For various reasons I had to move Plex from one Storage Pool to another and am following this support article . I am running the exact same server and the same Synology Version 6.2.4 I am using a synology NAS (ds416play) and having trouble m…

did you follow the “edit your libraries” part in the thread you are following for the storage pool change?

There aren’t any libraries to edit, the server is empty, similar as if it was new. Unless I’m misunderstanding the guide, are you saying I should try to create new libraries that point to the media locations?

i have personally never done this conversion but the libraries should be in tact they just wouldn’t be working since the media is no longer in that location. it sounds like you are saying when you go to libraries in the settings that there are none. There should be libraries there if the entire set …

reviewing your steps it looks like you skipped one of the sign outs in the instructions. Not sure i’ll be of much help here given i haven’t done this process. But you will also want to update your post with what dsm you are running. edit: you must be on dsm 6 given your folder structure. [image]

and you confirmed this by going to the parent folder and applying the permissions to all subfolders after you moved the contents? [image]

Good catch, I’ve added that info to the original since I actually did do the log out step

Yes I did chown -R plex:users [SHARE_DIRECTORY] and then confirmed with a ls -l that the ownership of the source folders is correct (I checked what plex set them as by default first then matched that)

chuck will have to chime in here as he probably can tell what may have happened off the top of his head. or he’ll have to dig into the folder. But perhaps that how to is outdated for a syno migration. he will know that best though.

actually I just noticed that the permissions set by plex are typically drwx------+ 1 plex users while my new ones are drwx------ 1 plex users dont’ know what that the plus ( + ) at the end there means or how to set it. Thanks for your help in the meantime

Synology - Issue Migrating Plex to another Storage Pool

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treasureChest June 8, 2022, 9:14pm 5

Yes, you are correct that’s what I’m saying. Plex is saying that there aren’t any libraries in the server which doesn’t make sense to me since I moved the entire original source folder structure over.

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