Can't delete custom labels?

[tom80H]

I’ve recently run into this too – it appears this can happen under some circumstances.

There’s a manual fix described in this thread:

Can't delete a label

There are several threads similar to this but none have resolved answers. I have some labels where i’ve used a + in the middle IE: mom+dad it looks like plex also made an additional tag without the + ie “mom dad” I have three labels like these with the +. Two of them somehow made additional labels with a space. The label with the space instead fo the + aren’t linked to any media. I cannot get them to delete for the life of me. How can I force delete a label. Any help would be greatly appreciated…

short version:

1. Execute the Plex SQLite app (in the app folder) in the command prompt (power shell, terminal…)
2. enter .open "<path to database>", pointing to the the com.plexapp.plugins.library.db file in the server data directory (-> Library > Plex Media Server > Plug-in Support > Databases)
3. enter Delete from Tags where Tags.tag="<name of the tag>" and Tags.tag_type=11; and press return
4. reload the web app to verify the tag is gone
5. exit the command shell app by entering .exit and pressing return