HELP PLEASE- One movie wont delete- Since then No new movies or any media will update.

Hi to anyone who will listen…Mac Mini running High Sierra 40Tb Thunderbolt storage. I deleted the movie from the drive directly. So far so good. I go to plex and try to delete and it says. There was a problem deleting this file and it stays. Since then no new files can be updated even though there have been a bunch added from different folders. All media plays except this one file of course. I have many users and friends added. I want to be able to update. I tried the following.

Using the Finder’s “Go” menu, select Go To Folder… then enter the following in the dialog box that pops up:

~/Library
From there, remove the following two locations:

~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/
~/Library/Caches/PlexMediaServer/

No luck. The server came up exactly the same. I added new server folders for movies and Tv shows. They fail to update and I have them pointing to the same folders the others were accessing. Now I can’t delete any of the folders. Something is corrupt.

My main goal is to keep my user’s settings and rebuild the server. I am pretty technical but after reading through the forums I feel more like a step above noob. Take it easy on me. Plex pass holder for 6 years. Plex is my life. Just want to save the server. I can export any log file that may seem helpful.

Thanks so much in advance.

Pastramowitz

After you deleted the file in Finder, there’s no need to “delete” it manually from Plex (and especially no need to re-build the server). All you need to do is to (re-) scan the library’s files from your Plex start page.

Much appreciated but I have added over 30 new movies and TV shows and hit scan library files literally over 100 times for all sections. Nothing updates and deleted file still stays there. Any other suggestions please let me know.

have you looked at the log files after scanning the library files (Settings > Server > Help > Download Logs) for any hints on potential errors?

I have this same problem on a plex server in unraid i have even reloaded the movie and got it to play again but it will not delete on the plex gui