Over the years I have used various media player/server combinations, with Plex being the most over the past few years. I have remnants I believe from past server programs, especially XBMC that I would like to know if I can safly remove?
There is .jpg for fanart/covers, image.xml files, thumbs.db etc that I wouldn’t assume is for Plex as the computer my actual plex server runs on has almost 500GB taken up just by the plex library metadata. I went through and did a wildcard search for .jpg files and deleted around 730 files. I then did a wildcard for .db files and found 241 files - there is absolutely more than 241 TV episodes, and some of those .db files have date on them of 2008 and some have a date of January 2017 which made me pause - if Plex does’t store metadata in the individual folders for each show why are some so current? I have one show with a thumbs.db date 2017 and the next closest is 2015.
Can I safely delete anything in my media folders besides the media itself? AFAIK plex stores everything on the computer hosting the plex server.
On a sidenote, I do use sickrage which is installed on my Synology to manage my tv collection but it doesn’t do anything else in my setup.
Thanks!