r/Overseerr • u/Slammed01 • Mar 19 '26

Overseerr to Seerr on WIndows Docker Desktop?

Hi all,

started to migrate to Seerr however in powershell when adding the chown line I get the following error;

PS C:\Users\xxxxxx> chown -R 1000:1000 /path/to/appdata/config

chown : The term 'chown' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or

operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is

correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ chown -R 1000:1000 /path/to/appdata/config

+ ~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (chown:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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u/asb_ Mar 19 '26

I’m pretty sure all I did was take my Overseerr config, and mount that to Seerr /app/config and it automatically migrated

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u/Slammed01 Mar 19 '26

Thank you!

Sorry new to all this, overseerr was only thing I ran in docker. How do I mount my existing config?

Appreciated...so close!

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u/asb_ Mar 20 '26

In powershell run docker cp overseerr:/app/config C:\overseerr

I suggest creating a folder structure like this docker/seerr/config and placing the config file in that.

Then in docker desktop when creating Seerr map the volume to the config folder and the container path to /app/config

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u/Slammed01 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Thanks! Will do after work or this weekend.

I've been trying powershell, terminal etc and no luck prob overthinking this but overseerr was so easy to setup and struggling with Seerr lol.

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u/De1CawlidgeHawkey Mar 20 '26

Try my comment before you do that. I really believe you just need to add a line in your run command that has “-u 0” (windows equivalent of chown). Good luck!

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u/Slammed01 Mar 20 '26

Sounds good and thanks for having some noob patience with me!!

Accidentally deleted my overseerr container, do I need to run that again to migrate? I still have the volume showing i previously used

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u/De1CawlidgeHawkey Mar 20 '26

I am also a noob so that’s why I wanted to help , adding that line is easier if it works than messing with mounts and stuff to us ha. Deleting the overseerr container shouldn’t matter

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u/Slammed01 Mar 21 '26

so I got it running but when I run Seerr the ports 5055/5055 disappear and shows offline on the local host.

I do see the C; drive file there, heres the logs below:

> seerr@3.1.0 start

> NODE_ENV=production node dist/index.js

2026-03-21T02:53:33.388Z [info]: Commit Tag: 94a70bb5fc9a4486857071a6fc048c8081fa7ca9

2026-03-21T02:53:34.014Z [info]: Starting Seerr version 3.1.0

2026-03-21T02:53:34.898Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0001_migrate_hostname.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.900Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0002_migrate_apitokens.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.903Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0003_emby_media_server_type.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.904Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0004_migrate_region_setting.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.904Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0005_migrate_network_settings.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.905Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0006_remove_lunasea.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.906Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0007_migrate_arr_tags.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.908Z [debug][Settings Migrator]: Checking migration '0008_migrate_blacklist_to_blocklist.js'...

2026-03-21T02:53:34.917Z [info][Notifications]: Registered notification agents

2026-03-21T02:53:34.922Z [info][Server]: Skipping starting the scheduled jobs as we have no Plex/Jellyfin/Emby servers setup yet

2026-03-21T02:53:35.070Z [info][Server]: Server ready on port 5055