Hi - I recently did a major overhaul to my music library, changing things like where music was located, the embedded icon related to many albums, changing artist names etc. I look on my computer at my music library and now see a large number of titles that have a trash can icon on them. I do realize this is to be expected. My question is how do I clean it all up and have things listed the way I have them now? I don’t want to empty the trash as I don’t want to delete the files that I have on my computer’s hard drive. I’ve tried to Scan Library Files. I am not against a complete uninstall and reinstall as long as I know the correct way to do it without it deleting what is on my hard drive. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Plex has a long-standing policy that their code will never edit your media files. It won’t delete anything unless you enable the ‘allow media deletion’ option, and then you must very deliberately select items and use the ‘Delete’ command.
Emptying the trash only gets rid of records in the Plex database that are no longer valid (such as pointing to files that have been moved from the location Plex knows about).
I would have thought the Scan Library Files would have worked. It does for me when I’ve moved files. You don’t need to re-install Plex, at any rate. If the Scan function doesn’t find things, I would recommend creating a new music library (don’t delete the old one yet). Once that’s done, you can manually compare it to the old one. If things appear to be correct in the new library, you can delete the old one.
As long as the new music code is not released yet, you’ll have to perform the Plex Dance “light”.
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Thank you both for your reply. As far as I can tell, creating a new library worked. Thanks again!
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