Do library ids have to match? 'newid not found in section sections'

[keithah]

export went great, but when I try to import I get lots of:

Processing user keithah
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 3
newid not found in source sections for library section id 3
newid not found in source sections for library section id 3
newid not found in source sections for library section id 3
newid not found in source sections for library section id 3
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
newid not found in source sections for library section id 8
No updates for keithah

Thanks!

[mlsmithjr]

Source and designation must both use the same plex media scanner. 99% of the time your issue is because there are items in either that were scanned with the old imdb scanner. Plex has their own now (been live for the last 6 or so months I think). I will add additional output details to help troubleshoot further. Also, Plex has a habit of leaving behind watch records of things you delete, so those won’t be in the destination. It’s annoying. I’ll push an update tonight (EST) that will dump out more details. This script is rerun-safe. You can run it as many times as you want, and you shouldn't get duplicate data. NOTE: If you get a bunch of warnings during import listing media files not found on the destination it could be: Old media garbage data in the source Plex db. Incompatible guid values between source and destination. When Plex switched to their own scrapers the guid values changed, which were being used as primary keys in the database. To fix you can try refreshing full metadata of the affected item(s) and re-export.

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On Jul 19, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Keith Herrington ***@***.***> wrote: export went great, but when I try to import I get lots of: Processing user keithah newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 No updates for keithah Thanks! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAHRMTBUCU46DCRTA5XRZPLVU4IIVANCNFSM54BJL4WQ>. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

[mlsmithjr]

Following up on this. Did you also get a message like "section name not found in database”?

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On Jul 19, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Keith Herrington ***@***.***> wrote: export went great, but when I try to import I get lots of: Processing user keithah newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 No updates for keithah Thanks! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAHRMTBUCU46DCRTA5XRZPLVU4IIVANCNFSM54BJL4WQ>. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

[mlsmithjr]

Sorry I’ve been busy with work. The core of this problem is a missing library. The Plex DB requires a watched item to be tied to a library, which is unfortunate because to me watched items are global. Anyhow, the error you are getting is because the source library cannot be found by the same name in the destination. I have pushed up an updated to GitHub that clarifies the messaging. It also eliminates the ’newid now found…’ messages because they are redundant. The missing library message will show more prominently now. I hope this helps. Marshall.

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On Jul 19, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Keith Herrington ***@***.***> wrote: export went great, but when I try to import I get lots of: Processing user keithah newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 3 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 newid not found in source sections for library section id 8 No updates for keithah Thanks! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAHRMTBUCU46DCRTA5XRZPLVU4IIVANCNFSM54BJL4WQ>. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.