I have three copies of plex running. Two newer databases on my Raspberry pi’s. And one older one on my laptop. The plex folder on my laptop contains 286 GiB of data. The one on the Raspberry Pi’s each have 66 GiB. The view looks exactly the same. Same movies, same TV shows same icons. I’m guessing over the years plex has cached a huge amount of data my laptop I simply don’t need.
Is there a good way to clean-up the extra 220 GiB of data, without rebuilding the database from scratch? As I really don’t like having to go through and rename movies and correct images manually.
Good guess but no. Deleting thumbnails did not reduce the size significantly. Why would it when my two copies that were only 66GB had all the thumbnails? I found I could delete pretty much all the files many of the files and refresh metadata. That dropped me below 100GB. But I wasn’t happy about the database referencing a bunch of files that didn’t exist anymore, so I decided just to rebuild the laptop server from scratch. Now all three are using a much more reasonable storage.
I suspect the issue is across upgrades, deleting of folders, adding in new folders, etc that each time some of the files did not get cleaned up. So far the only major downside is I lost all my playlists…
