I am thinking, I optimize my movies and TV shows and then I get rid of the originals, To my understanding by optimizing them I get rid of transcoding while I play the movies on my LG TV. Plex server running on a Mac.
But after deleting the original, the optimized version also gets deleted.
Am I missing something here? Why create the optimized version but not let it be there after original is deleted? I delete the original using the LG app.
Please help me understand this. Thanks
I just don’t understand why Plex doesn’t allow me to keep the version I want?
Something about this flow is not being usability sense.
Plus it even asks me which one I want to delete and I choose the original and then it deletes both. That’s definitely a bug.
Here is the bug:
Take a movie that is optimized. in the Plex TV App, go and try to delete it.
You get a choice to delete the optimized OR the original.
Select Original.
Confirmation screen mentions nothing about deleting the optimized version. Just confirms deletion of optimized version.
Confirm.
Now both Original and optimized version are deleted.
NEXT scenario.
While Plex server is running, go to Mac finder and delete the original file of a movie. Wait 2-3 seconds and voila, the optimized version is also put into trash. (I have screenshot if you need me to share it)
I hope this satisfies my case for there being a bug.
Outside of these bugs, I am asking why such effort spent to delete Optimized files when original is deleted? Isn’s the whole Optimization to ensure smooth playback of the movie with less CPU resources spent at playback time? So there are many who would optimize a movie and no longer need the original. Does my case make sense?
I’d say it is because Plex makes the library item from the original. It gets the meta data for the original. The whole reason any of it is in the library is because of the original, so you delete the original, it’ll delete any file that goes with it… Which includes optimized versions. You’d just need to optimize, then move the optimized version to where the actual item is, then delete the original.
Doesn’t look like anyone wants to understand the user here. Everything is viewed from the point of view of the engineer who designed it.
That’s ok. I’ll rest my case.
Looks like people do understand, but look at your subject… ends with "why? "
It maybe best if you become familiar with Handbrake (it’s Free), forget about optimizing. Great idea but not a great result agreed.
lllMehods, he does not understand, it’s a sign of frustration using why.
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