How to manage/delete synced content?

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Ok, pretty serious UI fail here… I can’t tell you how long I’ve been poking around in the Win10 app UI trying to figure out how to delete some content that was synced a while back. It should not be this hard. Only reason I waited until now was because I kept telling myself that Plex couldn’t have actually made it this obtuse and opaque, and that I must be missing something obvious. But I give up.

So… what’s the deep hidden secret? I go to “This device” and I see 4 movies that were synced a long time ago that I would like to remove. There’s no clear UI within each movie, nor any general UI widget to manage all synced content.

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In the Windows store app, you click on the server selector and select ‘This device’
Then select the library underneath.
Then select the synced item.

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In the lower, right corner there is the ‘downward arrow’ which symbolizes the ‘Sync’ action.
Tap/click on it, which then allows you to edit the synced item. There is also a ‘delete’ icon present:
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If you want to remove all synced items at once, you click on Settings:

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There is also the way to delete any synced item by using the web app.
Settings - Status - Sync
then select the device with the dropdown selector:

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Thanks for taking the time to try to assist, with screenshots and everything. However, I have no such button between the “Now Playing” and “Players” buttons, so there’s the roadblock. Also, the web app says “Nothing is synced to this device.” However 4 movies show up as locally installed on “This Device” in the Win10 app. So, how to proceed?

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