Hello everyone,
For the past month or so, I’ve been using Plex on my Windows 10 desktop to store all of my media. With it currently being tax return season, I was thinking about investing in a NAS. However, I do have one major concern about my media library and watch history.
I’ve watched quite a few movies and TV shows, and I’m afraid that once I transfer all of my media to a NAS, I’ll lose my ‘On Deck’ TV show positions and watched movie data.
I was wondering, once I purchase a NAS (with Plex support), would I be able to transfer all of my watch histories and ‘On Deck’ data to my new NAS media server? I’ve seen the Move an Install to Another System support article, but the article doesn’t seem to mention anything about watch history data being transferred.
I do apologize in advance if there is already another topic similar to mine, but I’d like to gain some further insight on how to accomplish this. Any additional information would be much appreciated!
Thank you for taking the time to read and look into this! Happy Plexing!
The watch history will travel along when using the above linked procedure.
If it is the history alone you are after, you can also just copy over the main Plex database file, once you have set up Plex on the NAS.
However: this is only possible on NAS devices which allow the user to access the internal storage.
Those stripped-down devices from WD which are running on Android OS don’t allow it.
So you may want to use either one of the bigger Synology or QNAP models.
Do keep in mind the restrictions of running Plex server on a NAS. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201373793-is-plex-media-server-on-a-nas-right-for-me/
