For a long time now the option to Empty Trash Automatically has not worked on one of my libraries with a large number of movies. It works for all other libraries. Basically when I replace a specific movie with one of higher quality in all other libraries the old title gets removed but in this one library I get a “duplicate” and when I go to the duplicate it shows as missing. I can view the file details and see that it lists two files, the old one deleted one and the new one. I have to manually delete the file here to remove it from Plex even although the file doesn’t actually exist on my filesystem.
But now it’s started happening on another of my libraries as soon as I reached 1000. Thought maybe there was a hard limit whereby the “Empty Trash Automatically” doesn’t work anymore.
No. There is no theoretical limit. I have 7x the movies and the option always works. I also have almost 110,000 episodes and still see the feature work.
Though, without knowing your exact setup I would still uncheck the option, exit plex, restart plex, re-enable the option again. and see if that works for you.
The odd thing is that setting is global, not just one particular library.
No Plex is not set to detect changes, I don’t want it to automatically detect. I manually scan my libraries.
PMS Version: 3.99.2 (but it’s been the same issue for over a year on every version)
filesystem: Windows OS 7
local storage
the library it happens with has 17k movies
it’s just started happening with a 1k movie library
my tv library with 85k episodes is fine
