Hi,
Does Plex currently support backup of watched/unwatched status? I'm about to format/reinstall OS X on my Mac Pro and I'd like the watched/unwatched status to survive the format, but I'm not sure it will.
This seems like a fairly easy thing to implement (I know, they always do to non-programmers), if it isn't already a feature are there any plans to make it a feature?
Cheers,
Alistair
I use the Trakt.TV plugin for partly this. Trakt.tv bundle scrobbles all my media that I have watched and also movies that I have rated to my account on trakt.tv You can later download the data from Trakt.tv to plex.
Having just gone through the painful process of migrating my Plex install from a Windows install to a linux based install this would have been a really useful feature :-?
@DavidIrwin said:
Having just gone through the painful process of migrating my Plex install from a Windows install to a linux based install this would have been a really useful feature :-?
Uhm, why didn’t you just move in the older database. There’s a support document for it here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201370363 Yeah, before you get into something like this again, either ask, or look at the support docs… Most times things are covered there pretty well.
To the OP: You CAN back up the DB to the cloud as well. And then use the same methods to restore it via the support document I linked to above. Plex already can be set to make a DB backup every 3 days, (so you don’t lose it all.) and you can change the default directory for this 3rd day back up. Change it to your local cloud sync folder for which ever service you want to use, and as the file is backed up, everything gets backed up tot eh cloud automatically. You will have to go in and clean things up from time to time I expect… As the files might keep building up on the cloud, and then your data stored there might become too large for your plan.
@MikeG6.5 said:
@DavidIrwin said:
Having just gone through the painful process of migrating my Plex install from a Windows install to a linux based install this would have been a really useful feature :-?Uhm, why didn’t you just move in the older database. There’s a support document for it here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201370363 Yeah, before you get into something like this again, either ask, or look at the support docs… Most times things are covered there pretty well.
Mike,
Thanks for the comment. i did read that article, but with the move from Windows to unRAID all of the paths of files changed due to the file system changes which means that simply copying the old database as-is does not work. If I had moved from one instlalation of Windows to another that article would be completely appropriate. I did search the forums and ask for help which I received.
David
@DavidIrwin said:
…, but with the move from Windows to unRAID all of the paths of files changed due to the file system changes which means that simply copying the old database as-is does not work.
Even if the paths to all the media files are invalid now, the database still stores the watched/unwatched state of all movies and tv shows because these are not bound to file paths but to GUIDs.
Simply speaking, those GUIDs are the IMDB ID when using Freebase as movie agent, or the ID for TheMovieDB.
For TV shows it is the ID number which TheTVDB uses.
These GUIDs only change if you happen to use a different metadata agent when you match your files on the new server. (e,g, when you used TheMovieDB before and now switch to Freebase or vice versa.)
@OttoKerner said:
Even if the paths to all the media files are invalid now, the database still stores the watched/unwatched state of all movies and tv shows because these are not bound to file paths but to GUIDs.
Simply speaking, those GUIDs are the IMDB ID when using Freebase as movie agent, or the ID for TheMovieDB.
For TV shows it is the ID number which TheTVDB uses.These GUIDs only change if you happen to use a different metadata agent when you match your files on the new server. (e,g, when you used TheMovieDB before and now switch to Freebase or vice versa.)
Damn, Really wish I’d known that before I spent ages sorting out my database (4 attempts and several hours of work :-?
Somewhere on these forums is a guide to extract the ‘watched’ information from the old database and import it into the new.
This should work at least for the admin user. For shared and managed users it might assign it to the wrong users.
Thank you. I will have a look see but the simple database copy/transfer with the right settings certainly looks like the easiest option for all involved 
I totally need this,
I would love to keep my stats on cloud, manual export within plex gui, anything that was nice and easy
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
while this one is significantly older, there’s a newer one with a single vote (yet)
