2024-11-26, 03:23 PM
My server is running on Windows 11 and I'm migrating to Windows Server 2025. The issue I'm running into mainly is that the USERNAME for the user on the new system is different than the old one, and that's where my jellyfin configs and library are (%localappdata%\jellyfin\).
I tried to edit a couple of the files I could find references to the user name in and replace it with the new user name. That MOSTLY got things to work. The server started up, I could log in with my user and I could play back a show.
Before running the server installer on the new system, I also pasted in the Program Files\Jellyfin\Server directory, but I didn't edit anything in it.
However I started noticing a few strange things - the TV Shows library had every show marked as watched BUT inside the seasons/episodes had the correct status. Also, while I was able to play back existing episodes, the server was somehow not able to correctly access the directory where the shows are stored (all directories are identical on the new OS).
Then I checked the logs and once again there were still somehow references to the old username and that's where I set this aside and fired the old system back up.
Any ideas on how I can thoroughly replace references to the old username directory from all relevant files in order to do this migration? Is there something else I could be missing?
I tried to edit a couple of the files I could find references to the user name in and replace it with the new user name. That MOSTLY got things to work. The server started up, I could log in with my user and I could play back a show.
Before running the server installer on the new system, I also pasted in the Program Files\Jellyfin\Server directory, but I didn't edit anything in it.
However I started noticing a few strange things - the TV Shows library had every show marked as watched BUT inside the seasons/episodes had the correct status. Also, while I was able to play back existing episodes, the server was somehow not able to correctly access the directory where the shows are stored (all directories are identical on the new OS).
Then I checked the logs and once again there were still somehow references to the old username and that's where I set this aside and fired the old system back up.
Any ideas on how I can thoroughly replace references to the old username directory from all relevant files in order to do this migration? Is there something else I could be missing?