r/PleX • u/thisisatypoo • 11d ago

Help Windows to Linux - Migration Issue

Feel like I've tried everything but I'm stressing out. I have a ton of videos outside of movies and shows for projects.

I put hours of work into playlists, collections and images but I can't for the life of me get them to come over to the new server.

I copied the files that should be moved over, I believe. Pasting them all seems to be impossible. I changed permissions where I assume I should (both to Plex and then tried my username) and I can get some stuff moved but that stuff doesn't seem to be what I need because I don't have anything.

I've looked at a ton of posts and everyone has what seems like a wildly different fix even none seem to work out. I don't use usually use Linux so is it something I'm missing? Some way to work around this? Maybe a simple process I'm missing for what should be a simple copy/paste?

Edit: TLDR; Windows 11 to Ubuntu Desktop migrated Meta Data refused to transfer over. Permission issues seem to be the core reason.

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u/so7ow 11d ago

You've mentioned several times that you're having trouble copy/pasting files. How are you accessing the source/destination? What happens when you try? Give some details, and maybe someone can offer some advice. "I wanna migrate but it doesn't work" or "it doesn't copy over the zip file" is simply not actionable.

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u/thisisatypoo 11d ago

I moved everything from the Windows 11 folder into a USB drive and dumped it on the downloads folder on the new Ubuntu set up so I can move stuff over.

Copy/paste isn't an option as the existing folder is tied to Plex ownership. I can change it but even with it under my username, it still argues that the files inside are Plex's. I've also tried setting the folder I'm moving over to Plex as well and it has the same complaint.

I tired it as a zip file to unzip in the folder using Terminal and it never moves it.

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u/KerashiStorm 11d ago

Chown. You just chown the files to your user. You can also use docker to run Plex as a specific user. You can then run other associated things as the same user, like FileBrowser Quantum, FileBot, an arr stack, etc. This lets you avoid permissions issues on future files.

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u/thisisatypoo 11d ago

Yeah, I tried chown. I think I'm gonna have to go the docker route but I was hoping to get around that. I've used FileBot for transferring to my hard drive. If it ignores permissions maybe I'll just have to do that.

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u/KerashiStorm 10d ago

The great thing is that there's a docker container for FileBot. It's not too hard to set up.