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Status: Failed; Unable to migrate previous configuration - nickc - 16-10-2026 21:40
This follows the replacement of the hard drives in a QNAP NAS, which had MinimServer installed though not active for a long time. Before the upgrade I backed up my apps and data, including MS, and after reinitialising the QNAP I restored everything. I suspect when the apps were restored MS automatically created fresh config files which caused problems when I then restored my data, which included the previous MinimServer folder.
The full messages displayed are: "Media server status for MinimServer[LandroNAP]: Failed"
And: "Unable to migrate previous configuration; saved as minimserver.config.copy"
This latter line is repeated in the log file four times; the log contains no other clues.
I tried deleting minimserver.config and minimserver.config.save, then relaunching MS, as that worked on a previous similar situation on a Raspberry Pi, but it hasn't helped this time. I see there's a minimserver.config.error file, which lists two different config versions: at line 1 ".configVersion = 2.2.120" and at line 8 "minimserver.configVersion = 2.2.139"
Could that be the problem?
Here's the full error file:
Code:
.configVersion = 2.2.120
.licenseType = full
.logLevel = debug
minimserver.activeProfile = default
minimserver.monitorUDN = 5101e9b4-5646-4448-b6dc-99afb4a92e6c
minimserver.udn = 9685c06b-fe6d-4b69-9a05-9d4d8d845f01
minimserver.systemUpdateID = 4
minimserver.configVersion = 2.2.139
minimserver.lastRescan = 1792171867686
minimserver.license = 2.0.4
minimserver.checkedUpdates = minimserver-2.2.jmupd\nminimserver-update-245;1699950043335
.updatesExpiry = 20270728
minimserver.indexTags = Composer, WORK, Artist, Conductor, Orchestra, Date, Genre, *RecentAdded, *RecentPlayed, \#AudioData, \#AudioFormat
.logFile = /share/Public/minimserver.log
minimserver.mergeFolderAlbums = true
stream.options = streamSize\=4gb
stream.transcode = aac\:wav
minimserver.tagFormat = Artist.displayFormat\={$artist$orchestra$conductor}
minimserver.tagOptions = Album.sortTags\={Album, Artist}
stream.configVersion = 2.1.104
stream.baseTime = 1778268806165
minimserver.contentDir = /share/Multimedia/MUSIC
.integrityCheck = 20fc9beb6dfb36fa279e0fa10a52f57abRE: Status: Failed; Unable to migrate previous configuration - nickc - 17-10-2026 09:58
I've found the solution in another post: stop MinimServer from within the QNAP App Centre, then start it again. Simple! Sorry to have taken up bandwidth.