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How to Nondestructively Move Plex Media Library to New Device

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Greetings!

 

I've been running PMS on my iMac for a while, with my media stored on two external hard drives attached to the iMac (one drive for Movies and one for TV Shows). I'm running out of room on the external drives so I've decided to move all the content to one large NAS device. The problem I'm facing is that I've made lots of edits to the metadata for my content (custom descriptions for every single movie being the largest), and I don't want to lose any of that data.


I know that I could go into PMS, delete the reference to the old external drives and then point to the folders on the NAS, but that appears to delete everything and start from scratch (re-downloading metadata, posters, etc. and losing my custom metadata).

 

How can I move my Plex media library to a new device and have the existing entries in the database for each file simply point to the new location, thus preserving my custom metadata?

 

Thanks for any guidance you can provide!


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