# Transferring Plex to NAS drive

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-synology\
**Created:** [July 17, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transferring-plex-to-nas-drive/801047 "2022-07-17T08:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![philrayner53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e79b87/32.png) [@philrayner53](https://forums.plex.tv/u/philrayner53)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transferring-plex-to-nas-drive/801047/1 "2022-07-17T08:45:22Z")

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I have been running Plex for some years on a HP mini server on Windows 7. I have been experiencing some performance issues so have decided to set up Plex on a Synology DS920+, my question is how do I transfer Plex over? Currently transferring my media files over into the same named folders as before.

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transferring-plex-to-nas-drive/801047/2 "2022-07-17T14:30:47Z")

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> [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/synology-faq-questions-answers-and-a-few-how-tos/490215/33):
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> FAQ 26 - Migrate from another OS → DSM 7 Migrating from another PMS installaton to Synology DSM 7 requires a little bit of up-front work. The basic procedure is: Prepare the existing installation for copying Create a “Plex” shared folder on DSM which will be the base share for importing. Create the folders “Plex/Library/Application Support” Copy the “Plex Media Server” folder and contents into “Application Support” Manually set permissions of the Plex share, and all files in the shared fo…

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**Author:** ![philrayner53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e79b87/32.png) [@philrayner53](https://forums.plex.tv/u/philrayner53)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transferring-plex-to-nas-drive/801047/3 "2022-07-19T08:21:21Z")

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Many thanks for this, just copied all my my media files to the NAS drive and currently going through them to clean them up, had some of them for over 10 years and need updating. Will work through the solution after I have done this.

Phil

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transferring-plex-to-nas-drive/801047/4 "2022-10-17T08:21:28Z")

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