Simply stop your Plex Media Server on your Mac. Disable Empty Trash / Library Updates on your Mac.Īs a first step, go to your existing Plex Server's configuration, under Library, once again disable Empty trash automatically after every scan and Scan my library automatically as well as Scan my library periodically. Now that your Synology is ready, it's time to get your existing Plex data off Mac. Your Synology NAS is now ready for you to import your existing Plex data. Simply go to the Package Center, look for the Plex Media Server app and press Stop. With the new server initiated, it's time to stop it. It is also key to make sure to disable empty trash and automatic library updates in the server's Library settings. With the installation of Plex Media Server completed, go through the setup wizard, but don't add any folders to any library. I then proceeded to install this by going to the Package Center app and selecting Manual Install and selecting the file I just downloaded. Install Plex Media Server on your NASĪs I have a DS918+, thus an Intel based NAS, I wanted to make sure that I can take full advantage of hardware transcoding, so I downloaded the Intel 64bit PlexPass version from the Plex website. Prepare your Synology NASįirst, we need to get Plex up and running on your Synology NAS. Luckily, I came across a great post by Mo_Gas on the Plex forums, making this process quite painless. Given this would be the first time moving Plex from Mac to Linux, instead of Mac to Mac, the migration would require a bit more work.

With nearly a decade worth of watch history and friends who are using the server on the regular, it was key to not loose any of the history and libraries. With it's SSD starting to fail, the time has come to retire it and move my Plex server to my new Synology DS918+, with an upgraded 8GB of RAM. It's been over 7 years that I've been running my Plex server off my trusty old 2011 Mac Mini.

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