@ChuckPA said:
At some point, most likely by accident, it was enabled. That’s what would cause the thumbnail to come down and be included with the movie’s metadata. The extra itself isn’t stored locally.Take one of your movies with that and, with the Extras option now off, Plex Dance it making certain to perform the Scan-Empty-Clean in order before moving the movie back into position.
I had come across this topic and was following it: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1498573#Comment_1498573
However, I found this wasn’t sufficient and that I needed to also do a ‘Refresh Metadata’ for it to be removed.
Before I did the above, I had to address it thinking the option was selected. I disagree that it was ever selected, because I just re-setup Plex and I know for certain I didn’t use that option. However, I was using my backup/restore Perl script, which worked great incidentally (https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/301248/backing-up-the-plex-db-and-preferences-new-perl-script-for-ubuntu#latest). However, it looks like while it restored everything, Plex somehow thought this was enabled and was acting as if it was enabled, even if it appeared not-enabled.
I went in a cycled it, enabled/apply/un-enable/apply before I did the above. And that seems to have did the trick.
@OttoKerner said:
@Reed97123 said:
I never watch ‘extras’ such as trailers and ‘Behind the Scenes’, and I don’t want it to use disk space to store them, nor bandwidth to download them.These extras are not downloaded to your server.
It is merely the small thumbnail picture what is stored on your server.
If one of your clients decides to watch such a video, it is streamed directly from the internet to this client.
That is actually a lot better than I was imagining. I might have just left it there if I had understood it wasn’t consuming but a thumbnail’s worth bandwidth and storage. Thanks for explaining the details.
