I had my files in a disk with Z:\ letter. I bought a new disk. I set the letter F:\ and add the new path to PMS without removing the old one. I started moving the files to the bigger disk and in my surprise they get transcoded for a second time.
Why is that? Why don’t you store a HASH with the file so that you can recognize the already done job? In Roon that I use for music it happens as I suggest. When I move something it goes directly in the previous place. For example if I add 10 albums each day for a week and suddenly I move the first album in a new disk it will show again along with the today albums and not with the ones in 12/5.
If it’s the BIF generation, then this is highly possible. When moving files, PMS could potentially remove the old entry before adding the new one. When removing the old one, the BIF info is lost. Our guide on moving your media actually says to copy files, to prevent this loss of the old data. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154537-move-media-content-to-a-new-location/
To be clear did you move or copy.
Assuming you copied did you let Plex scan the new copies and thus ended up with duplicates of all your movies in Plex.
If Plex sees them as duplicates they will be retained as far as im aware.
If you moved or didn’t let Plex see both copies then whatt you are seeing is expected I believe.
I didn’t read it. I thought that it will see the differences while running the PMS.
@Xhaka I moved them. As I wrote before I did that with a live system and without remove any path.
When I copy music which is very common I open everything and start. I don’t care about speed but I care for my programs to be ready to use. I do that during night so the next day after work I’ll find everything ready and not wait then to update.
Yeah as @anon18523487 ays they really need to be copied.
Then they must be scanned in Plex alongside the existing copy. Only then should you remove the original drive.
Do you have the option to automatically empty the trash enabled? Leaving that off could help since it won’t remove the old stuff until you specifically tell it to. But then you have to remember to manually empty the trash or you end up with “file not found” errors.
Well seeing as you have prompted the question and it’s been a year since I last said it.
Still the worst default setting I have seen in any software ever.
Beyond those who watch and then immediately delete every movie/episode they watch then simply…why??
But I hoard my stuff and maybe I’m a minority?
In most cases that setting doesn’t cause a problem. People remove stuff and it’s gone from their library. No need to see the silly icon, especially since if you share your server, other others will have issues too and they can’t empty the trash.
Most people don’t move files around after it’s already added to Plex, so it’s less impactful to users having this as the default.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the thinking behind it. But in these days of USB drives/bays. Nas connected storage etc… I still find it strange.
That said as I become more senile it’s on my (very) short list of things to do when I ever have a tidy up/server reinstall etc…
Ah ok.
So Plex can distinguish the difference between a few files missing from a root path it does see and not seeing that whole path becuase for example it became unmounted.
Thats actually pretty cool and I just learned something new.
