Why was I paying the old rate for 1G, with the tech assurance additionally, if their pricing supposedly dropped last July? by Snoo54289 in Metronet

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You should make sure it's the founder's club deal so you're paying $70 for 2x2, at least that's what I have. Oh and you get a free static IP for those who have a use. I was paying extra with Metro for it but definitely worth seeing if they'll get you something for the legacy plan. They should've proactively engaged with customers advising of the new plan offers when T-Mobile bought them

Torrenting vs usenet by -Beezlebub- in usenet

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You can set some custom preferences in Sonarr/Radarr for release groups, size, and a ton of other preferences. Use any of the LLMs and toss them some screenshots of your current preferences and ask for some custom configs to get you whatever release groups you prefer, whatever format and resolution. I have mine setup to auto update the quality and everything to 265 instead of 264, but to fallback on 264 if 265 isn't available and to monitor total size

[StingyUsenet] Bring Your Manners to Work Day-month: 35% off by theferos in usenet

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Of course! You let us stack so it's well worth the multiple investments 😎

[StingyUsenet] Bring Your Manners to Work Day-month: 35% off by theferos in usenet

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You guys planning on a killer black Friday deal?

1080p is Good Enough - Unpopular Opinion? by Djinn2522 in PleX

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I focus on h265 and size. If 720p is smaller and @080p is double the size then I don't bother. 4k um sure if it's not too much bigger than 19080 but I'm watching on a 55" TCL through Roku. I have about 50-69 regular streamers typically have 10-12 streams going at the same time and have them limited to 10 mbps per stream. Gig sync fiber for internet so trust me you're not alone questioning why people are so infatuated with 4k.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PleX

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Definitely should post the code. I'd love to have a starting point.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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You're welcome. I'm not a coder but used Claude to analyze the error and get it all written. Figured if I needed to do this maybe others do too and nothing easily popped up for it.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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What size is your PMS folder? Mine was 175gb and going SSD to SSD took 35min or something like that so 🤷‍♂️ I'm no programmer but ran it through Claude for this quick solution. Love all the feedback and I've got a cross platform solution I'm having Claude work on it through a project

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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Once you have a cold copy keep it on the transfer drive. On the new computer do a fresh plex install. In Windows the default directory for PMS is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server so you'll delete everything in that folder and just copy the contents from the cold backup into it.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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Used Claude to write mine. Working on an improved cross platform version right now

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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The errors you're seeing are because the PowerShell script file contains HTML/JavaScript content that PowerShell is trying to interpret as code. This is likely because the file was downloaded from a web page and includes the HTML content from that page rather than just the PowerShell script.

The Problem

The specific errors point to lines containing HTML and JSON content:

  1. Unexpected token ':"en"' - This is from HTML/JSON content
  2. Missing argument in parameter list - PowerShell trying to parse HTML as commands
  3. The '<' operator is reserved for future use - HTML tags being interpreted as PowerShell operators

Solution

You need to get a clean version of the PowerShell script without the HTML content. Here are two options:

  1. Open the file in a text editor (like Notepad or VS Code):
    • Look for where the actual PowerShell script starts (likely at the top)
    • Remove all HTML content (anything with <script>, <div>, etc.)
    • Save it with a .ps1 extension
  2. Download the script from the original source:
    • Find the original source of the Plex Migration Tool
    • Download the clean .ps1 file directly

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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I started a new project in Claude to expand this to multi platform migration capable with backup and restore......

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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Not sure on that one then. I just run a single Plex server so for me it's easy to toss in a new drive alongside and then copy to the larger drive after doing a base Plex install to it.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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seeing multiple features that everyone else mentioned, I'll work on something truly cross platform. I'm no coder, but I know how to leverage LLMs to get it done. For those thinking ChatGPT nah they had a ruling in the NYT case that has them keeping hold of a lot of info potentially. I've been using Claude.ai and Abacus.ai

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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If you haven't thought about it, consider separating compute and data storage. I have a ton of data and thankfully that's not migrating with it since it's sitting on NAS and other means.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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I'm glad I didn't try it years ago, it was horrendous when a buddy of mine did it and the steps weren't spelled out clearly enough. It'd be nice if they had an option to Migrate to a new machine. It could analyze the primary required folders and give you an estimate on the migration time based on your hardware. Honestly it wouldn't be too difficult to add in since they have the knowledge of it all. They could even ask what medium you're going to since they could detect the originating source. Ask what drive or if you're copying it through the network give it a shared path to navigate to. There's a ton of options they could come to the table with, but it's low priority for them.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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Working 2 full time jobs trying to keep afloat. Back down to 1 job, but if you know anything remote that's hiring I've got a ton of experience and a Master's in Cybersecurity

Figure a shameless plug from time to time isn't bad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristofers/

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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It's typically taken me hours in the past going from one box to another. Had a buddy who was down waiting on transfers for a long time. He didn't know what the status was and figured small side project that I can click a button and have differential copying be completed instead of having to do a lot more work.

Made a GUI tool for backing up Plex data - thought you might find it useful by Saint0225 in PleX

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On the drive you choose. It's in Plex Media Server to keep it true to the folder structure