Trying to restore old DataBase to new location/pc

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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can someone help me with restoring my plex server

i’ve dragged and dropped the old metadata (the whole Plex Media Server folder) inside the localappdata but my watch history/users data doesn’t show up

i found this article: “https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154527-move-viewstate-ratings-from-one-install-to-another/” but i’m not sure how to do it.

I’ve tried this on windows ubuntu command line using sqlite3:

drearo@Chidori:/mnt/c/Users/Chidori/AppData/Local/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases$ echo “.dump metadata_item_settings” | sqlite3 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db | grep -v TABLE | grep -v INDEX > settings.sql

drearo@Chidori:/mnt/c/Users/Chidori/AppData/Local/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases$ ls
com.plexapp.dlna.db com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2020-12-16
com.plexapp.dlna.db-shm com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2020-12-16 settings.sql
com.plexapp.dlna.db-wal com.plexapp.plugins.library.db

drearo@Chidori:/mnt/c/Users/Chidori/AppData/Local/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases$

nothing worked

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So I tried re-pasting only the /Plug-in Support and it worked. But it was downloading metadata again which is not good…
(Losing space for no reason since metadata was already saved once before?)

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Is it maybe because the media server installed is higher version than the version it was backed up with?

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Ok installing, running it. Draging folder on desktop from tmp then to local app data worked.

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