Server Version#: 1.20.1.3252 Hi! My Plex is running on multi-disk Mac server and all of media content is located on large non-system volumes. Nevertheless, Plex server app and its caches are located on system volume by default. My system volume is SSD and not too big to carry on tens GB of Photo…

I think I found a bug, at least on some platforms (Windows should be unaffected). We should be clearing cache files older than 30 days every week with a scheduled task but I just ran this job on my own system and it’s not doing what I would expect it to. I have a fix in the works.

Good news! Should we wait this fix in close updates?

Glad to here there’s a fix coming. I just caught this today and my phototranscoder folder is at about 170GB on my Mac.

Yikes! The next beta release which has a fix for this is currently with our QA team so it should hopefully be ready sometime next week. It is perfectly safe to manually delete the contents of the PhotoTranscoder folder though if you need to reclaim the space urgently.

PMS Version 1.20.1.3252 Win 10 Add me to the list of PhotoTranscoder gone wild. I didn’t notice it last week when Windows was running out of space, but today it’s showing a folder size of 183GB. I’ve noticed Plex is always scanning my photo library, even though there are no changes (since Camera…

The scheduled clean up job should now work correctly in the latest beta. [image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3343 is now available in the beta update channel. NEW: (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660). (DVR) Gu…

I’m currently on version 1.20.3.3483, and my PhotoTranscoder folder is still over 42gb. Is there something i should be doing to get this to clean up? Edit… with a random spot check in the folders, it looks like everything has a modified date of less than 30 days. I have about 2600 movies and 4000…

Mine is 248GB on a 500GB boot drive. I’ve already deleted it once, and it just regrew. Please advise on how to stop this from happening!!

I’m on 1.20.4.3517 and this is a recurring problem for me too. [image]

So can we just delete the content in that folder? How quickly does it grow back?

Huge size of PhotoTranscoder folder

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drzoidberg33 September 24, 2020, 6:36am 9

The scheduled clean up job should now work correctly in the latest beta.

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Huge size of PhotoTranscoder folder

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