Server Version#: 1.26.0.5715 Player Version#: 4.79.4 Been having this issue recently where media scanning is incredibly slow. During this time it will typically process 1-2 folders a minute and sometimes get stuck for 5-10mins. I see no warnings or timeouts in verbose or debug logs. But this mak…

Are the files stored on the server, or are they connected via a NAS? What kind of drive(s) are the files stored on? Can you post the logs?

Mixture of media locations, some is local direct disk access (7200RPM Mechanical HDD), SMB target (Synology), SMB Target (Windows Server 2019). Don’t have access to get logs atm. New media is quickly found with partial scan, but due to the size of the library I’m frequently moving large amounts of…

Might be worth checking the scan agent too. The newer agent is faster. But Ill wait for the logs

I’m using “Plex TV Series” for both the scanner and agent. ~removed~ I’m about 12 hours deep into a scan, 15% complete. Let me know if you can find anything, nothing is standing out to me in the logs.

N:\Plex\Television\NEW\Shark.Tank.S13E14.720p.HULU.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-NTb.mkv] Things like this can slow down the scan. To conform to the naming rules, the library would have to be directed at the /NEW folder only. Folder level for the show title is missing folder level for the season is missing …

Thanks for the reply. I’ve tried larger dumping/temp folders before but historically Plex would just flat out stop scanning for new content once there was 5,000 items or more in the folder. So I’ve ended up trying to separate out full seasons from individual episodes. There is currently 16 source fo…

[image] klammore: Renaming/Re-Organizing 150TB +/- of content as you’ve outlined isn’t feasible Yes, it very much is. Take a look at Filebot or TinyMediaManager. Either that, or you’ll have to live with those absurd scanning durations.

I dont follow the exact structure plex wants, but I have <show> {tvdb-<id>}\<show> - <S00>x<E00> - <title> split across 10 folders. and a library scan only takes 20-30 minutes, with ~100,000 files. Biggest issue you need to follow is to have per show directories and avoid intermediate directories. I…

Don’t expect external assets and subtitles to work with such a folder structure. It’s simply un-supported. It may work. It may not. It may work for a while – until it doesn’t.

Thanks @OttoKerner and @dbirch for taking the time to respond. I’ll just live with it for now, I’m not in a position to rename and reorganize these files as there are other applications accessing this data under it’s existing structure. Keeping those applications working is more critical to me than…

Extremely Slow Scanning performance

Plex Media Server

OttoKerner April 16, 2022, 5:08pm 8

Yes, it very much is. Take a look at Filebot or TinyMediaManager.
Either that, or you’ll have to live with those absurd scanning durations.

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Extremely Slow Scanning performance

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