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Davies23
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How Do I Update EmbyServer Without Losing Any of My Data? I'm on MacOS

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Hi, simply install the latest version on top of your existing version. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

Davies23
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So I had an old version of the EmbyServer on my Mac, so I downloaded a new one from your website. When I downloaded the new version I had two Emby Servers so I deleted the old one. When I deleted the old one and opened the new Server, all of my data was gone.

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On 5/31/2021 at 3:13 AM, Davies23 said:

So I had an old version of the EmbyServer on my Mac, so I downloaded a new one from your website. When I downloaded the new version I had two Emby Servers so I deleted the old one. When I deleted the old one and opened the new Server, all of my data was gone.

Hi, what was the old version number, do you know?

Davies23
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I don't remember, I'm on version 4.6.1 right now.

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12 hours ago, Davies23 said:

I don't remember, I'm on version 4.6.1 right now.

Do you remember roughly when you may have installed the last version? e.g. under one year ago, a couple years ago, etc?

Davies23
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I installed it about a week ago.

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When I downloaded the new version I had two Emby Servers

What exactly do you mean by this? What led you into thinking you had two emby servers?

Davies23
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It told me to shutdown Emby to update it. When I did it was still was on the old version.

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So I clicked on the link that said "Please shutdown Emby Server and install the latest version" and that led me here: https://emby.media/mac-server.html. I downloaded the version from that. website and then I had this: 

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Two Emby Servers. So I deleted the old version and kept the newer version (the one that I downloaded from the Emby website). When I opened up the newer version, all my data was gone, and I had to start from scratch. So my question is how can I prevent that from happening next time?

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When you downloaded the update did you drag emby server into your applications folder as per usual?

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Ok I've never seen that before. If it happens again please let us know before removing one of them. Thanks.

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