# How to Stop PLEX from auto scanning my libraries?

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stop-plex-from-auto-scanning-my-libraries/790150 "2022-04-26T03:06:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![brocke26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@brocke26](https://forums.plex.tv/u/brocke26)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stop-plex-from-auto-scanning-my-libraries/790150/1 "2022-04-26T03:06:11Z")

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Every day around 10 pm, PLEX auto-scans my libaries. Every time this occurs, it seems to cause an issue where the only fix is to reboot my cloud and try to reconnect my plex, and try to cancel the scan. Sometimes I catch the scans before they get too far, but it’s annoying to remember to catch it to stop.

Whenever I select to have PLEX to scan a library, I never have any issues! It is only when PLEX auto-scans.

Hopefully my image below loads, but as you can see, I do not have it checked to scan my library automatically and I do not have it checked to scan my library periodically. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated because, after months of dealing with this, I’m at the end of dealing with it!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/c/3/0/c30d32875d92f8124b53c64499fed319e832ca43.jpeg)

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![grhiner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/grhiner/32/237004_2.png) [@grhiner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/grhiner)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stop-plex-from-auto-scanning-my-libraries/790150/2 "2022-04-26T03:51:33Z")

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Check your scheduled tasks in ‘Settings\>\>Settings\>\>Scheduled Tasks’ and see if you have something at 10am and modify its properties to stop the scan or update of libraries.

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**Author:** ![brocke26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@brocke26](https://forums.plex.tv/u/brocke26)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stop-plex-from-auto-scanning-my-libraries/790150/3 "2022-04-26T04:15:40Z")

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Thank you for the suggestion. Everything was checked in scheduled tasks but listed as 2 am. I unchecked all and changed the time.

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**Author:** ![brocke26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@brocke26](https://forums.plex.tv/u/brocke26)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stop-plex-from-auto-scanning-my-libraries/790150/4 "2022-04-30T22:20:55Z")

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This worked perfectly! I waited a couple of days, and found that I had no issues after making those changes!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stop-plex-from-auto-scanning-my-libraries/790150/5 "2022-07-29T22:21:27Z")

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