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-progr…

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://sup…

@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 …

@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/unw…

@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 …

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 :smiley:

I totally need this, I would love to keep my stats on cloud, manual export within plex gui, anything that was nice and easy

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