Hard drive failures, network issues, other broken links in the chain from you to the media you want can all cause media to no longer be available. From what I have read, Plex doesn’t do anything to determine if a source media file is available until a user manually attempts to access (play) it.
I run PMS in linux, an environment that lends itself more toward experimentation. Sometimes this leads to broken media entries (temporarily or permanent). I see value in a “deleted” or “unavailable” option in the filters, similar to “duplicates” - like suggested here but that discussion suggests the need for what I am asking for in this feature request.
I also found this additional use case for this flag here
I know it would be erroneous to add a check like this to the main scanner task, but an option to enable it, or run it manually would be awesome.
