Good day, fellow Plex users. This is a first for me, contributing to this forum, so I have no idea if I’m doing it the proper way
As the title indicates, since a few updates ago a strange phenomenon has arisen on my Plex server (Windows 11). When I delete a movie using, for example, my Android phone or via the Plex app on my Samsung TV, ALL titles convert to strange names, all starting with a $ sign, followed by a random combination of letters (e.g. $DJLFO or similar).
All images/movie posters have disappeared, and no movie is recognizable anymore, let alone playable. Only after performing a ‘library update’ several times will the original titles be visible again. Unfortunately, the latter does not always work and I have to restart Plex.
In short; does anyone have any idea how/why this happens, or better; can be avoided?
Or inspect them yourself. Take a look at the Plex Media Server.log file and seek for messages about database corrupt or malformed.
If you find these, you may have to repair your database. https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/
Hey, Otto. Apologies for the late response; unfortunately I didn’t have time to respond earlier.
As it seems my problem is solved. I had all media on 1 partition in the root. Of course there is also a recyclebin there, as Microsoft so nicely calls it.
Anyway, since a couple of months/updates Plex also includes the contents of the recycle garbage can in the overview, or even worse; it changes all media names into ‘recyclebin names’.
I have no idea why, my knowledge of the technique behind it is limited, but I have solved it for now by putting all media in an extra folder in the aforementioned root. And now suddenly I have no more problems with dubious file names.
