Hi, I am running plex for me and my family on a windows 2016 Server and I have no Problem with the functionality itself, but it is a crazy data hog: I have a few thousand audio files, viedo files and photos. Plex is hardly used, but here and then somebody streams something. The media amount is har…

[image] BurnInHell: The first Problem is, that I am missing a oppurtunity to define the place of teh data directory, See [HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows [image] BurnInHell: The second problem is, that it is again at roundabout 20GB That is far …

Hi, thanks for all the information. I decided to try it one more time with plex: I had no interest in preserving all the metadata and started with a clean slate: Deinstalled plex, deleted all the plex config and data folders and made a fresh install, added all my libraries and waited after the lib…

During nightly server maintenance, additonal data are generated. If the collection is big, and/or the server is weak, it can take weeks to create them all. These are not within the Plex data folder, immediatley after the media are added. Among these generated data are: in-depth bandwidth analysi…

When creating the libraries, I unselected all the “preview”, “thumbnail” etc functions. Just the posters for the movies and tv shows. And what is happening with the plex databases? The main db is seven times bigger. I will wait for a few more weeks and check, if the folder is expanding without lim…

It is now 6 weeks later, and the following happened: Overall most of the plex subfolder sizes changed not much, some even got smaller, BUT the plex library has grown to around 2,5GB. Keep in mind, this was a fresh install two months ago, on a server with no downtime, restarts, etc. I tried the debu…

Which Plex server version are you currently using? When did you perform updates?

It was 1.20.3 at installation time, now I upgraded today to 1.21.1. I found other threads describing the error with no solution from plex: [image] Plex Database sqlite file has more than doubled in 10 days Desktops & Laptops Server Version#: Version 1.19.5.3112 Player Ve…

There is no need to dump the whole table. The offending rows can be cleanly identified and selectively removed. – As long as one can still work with the database and it’s not damaged. DELETE FROM STATISTICS_MEDIA WHERE account_id IS NULL; Please see Plex Database sqlite file has more than doubled …

This solution would only be sufficient, if the bug had been fixed. It is no solution to manually stop plex, open the database with an external tool, run sql statements and then compress the file, and non the less do the procedure once a month. This should have been fixed now. Why is this still open,…

One goal is to determine whether the latest server update brought improvement. Another is to give you a workaround to keep your server running. Not all users are affected by that issue. The question is what is special about either your server or your network. Do you also have DLNA activated?

Are there any data cleanup strategies implemented?

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It was 1.20.3 at installation time, now I upgraded today to 1.21.1.
I found other threads describing the error with no solution from plex:

Best solution I found was, dropping the table, which is not advised by plex staff, but seems to work.
Are there any news, regarding that bug?

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