Comments on: Updating your Plex video source file paths

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:48:58 +0000

thanks for this guide, worked very well for me

@steven, I had the same problem. the trick to merge into one folder from other folders is:
first update the OLD paths like:
/OLDVolume/ folder1/ to /OLDVolume2/folder2/
/OLDVolume2/folder2/ to /OLDVolume3/folder3/ and finally rename the path of last the new bigger volume
/OLDVolume3/folder3/ -> /NEWVolume/mergedfolder/.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:07:29 +0000

For most cases this solution seems to work rather well, but I’ve run into some issues with simply updating the paths:

1.) This solution does not work for stacked movies or episodes, as the stacks are not defined in the ‘path’ table, but in the ‘files’ table. You will also have to replace the paths in the ‘files’ table where ’strFilename’ begins with ’stack://’

2.) Plex/Aeon stopped showing Artwork and Thumbnails for TV shows after updating the paths…

By: arfore

arfore — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:02:24 +0000

@ steven

Actually I have run this partciular query several times, each time with a different old location. This was due to having split up my library across multiple external drives.

In each case the query worked as expected. I have no idea if you can actually run the update commands concurrently or not. I would imagine that to do so would cause data corruption issues, which I imagine is the reason that no one actually developing the core Plex functionality is likely to recommend this particular scenario.

By: steven

steven — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:55:11 +0000

Great post… and very helpful. One question (and keep in mind I’m not a database kind of guy): I am consolidating multiple drives onto a Drobo. It doesn’t look like SQLite will allow me to do that. I can successfully change the path of one drive (/Volumes/MOVIE_HD) to the drobo (/Volumes/Drobo/), but not for a second (/Volumes/MOVIE_HD_2/). Is there a way to execute multiple UPDATE statements at the same time? Or am I just missing something very simple? Thanks for your help.