My music library is 60k+ songs. The initial build/refresh of the library took nearly 3days. Since Plex doesn’t or should I say my Synology doesn’t throw “change” alerts, I have set Plex to update my library hourly. Problem is once it hits my Music library (where currently no new items have been a…

If your Plex server is running on your Windows server VM then there is a way you can update single libraries on schedule. Create a task in Task Scheduler that has a command line like: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Scanner.exe" and arguments like --scan --refresh --sec…

Nice… thanks for the reply… I did find a post about the “Plex Media Scanner.exe” while running a search on my C: I can’t seem to find that executable Edit* I found it… Thanks again for the reply… I will create scheduled tasks for each individual library… although not as easy as clicking a check …

Yeah, not the easiest…but at least something until the check box comes around…I had something at the back of my head and did find the instructions for the command line in case you want to fine tune it: support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201242707-Plex-Media-Scanner-via-Command-Line

Can I Have The Plex Update Scanner Skip A Specific Library?

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Can I Have The Plex Update Scanner Skip A Specific Library?

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