I store a heap in cloud storage and on occasion, say if my internet drops out or if an update is being installed, the volume is no longer available.
When Plex does a scan - whooeee it thinks allllll of my media is deleted - necessitating a rescan of a butt load of media once the volume is restored. Huge waste of time and resources.
Perhaps Plex could check existing volumes are available before conducting a scan and if a volume is missing throw a pop up to say ‘Volume x is missing, confirm scan’.
ahh I should have clarified, I already have that setting not selected.
But the server places the trash can icon on all the media it thinks is missing but isn’t.
A rescan fixes it, but for large libraries this takes time…
I think I have confused things.
My media doesn’t completely vanish from Plex altogether. It is still there, just marked with the trash can icon.
This is expected behaviour for when you actually do delete files… but in this case I’m not deleting anything, just my volume is offline, think as if I accidentally unplugged one of my HDDs and then Plex does an auto scan, as far as Plex is concerned all the files are gone, but they aren’t really, they are sitting on the HDD waiting to be plugged in again.
aww man it happened again.
Online drive disconnected (aka internet has gone down)>Plex does maintenance scan>12000+ episodes marked as deleted (trash not emptied)>manual scan initiated>scans 12000+ files to go ‘oh look they are right where they are supposed to be’
have turned of ‘scan my library periodically’ until this is fixed
