Player inventory missing if world moved from macbook to windows server

I am a newbie as far as minecraft is concerned. I want to move a world on macbook to windows server to allow multiple players to play in the world. I zipped folder ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves/myworld on macbook and unzipped then in server directory (i then changed the world name in server.properties and i even tried renaming to world). I started the server and then connected using the same player username. So far so good.

While start up is fine, there are a few problems:

The items in the player's inventory don't show up even though I copied playerdata folder to server
I am in a different position than where I was on PC. This is not super critical to fix but is mainly a problem because I am unable to verify if the structures we built in the world transferred over correctly.

Note that if I move the files from macbook to windows and start Minecraft on windows (not server), then inventory and everything else looks good.

Appreciate any pointers.

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Where is player data stored in Minecraft servers?

Player data is any information that is stored about your players on your Minecraft server. The information is usually stored in a plugin folder or in the MC server hosting server's world folder.

Where is player inventory stored Minecraft bedrock?

Player inventories are stored with the ldb files (the db folder essentially consists of one database). Each player inventory is stored under the key "player_ID" where id is the integer id of the player. There is also a special key "~local_player" which represents the local player's inventory (game host or realm owner).

How do I reset my player data in Minecraft single player?

HOW TO FIND AND RESET A USER'S PLAYERDATA

Identify the player's UUID. ...

Go to your server's world folder. ...

Within your world folder, navigate to playerdata folder, and then open it.

Find and select the file which has the same name as that user's UUID, and then press delete.

How to transfer your inventory between worlds

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