To start, I am a big fan of plex! I have a very, very, large collection witch comes with some preformance problems. Library scans, take forever. Mainly because plex server is doing way more then it needs to. This can be improved dramatically with (what I think) some simple scan adjustments and op…

2016, hope the plex team could respond to my post or implement my idea’s. Because 95% of my library scan’s are a waste of time and take forever. The plex server needs to be smarter.

Have you tried doing any of this? https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201375253-Excluding-New-Content-with-plexignore I know it says for new content, but it may also work for old stuff, that has already been scanned in to stop it from being rescanned. And just how large is very, very large?…

Seems to me it would be better to have server scanning optimized instead of bogging the server down with options. Not sure if Plex is able to look at a folders “last modified” date, but if it could that’d be a simpler way to improve scan speeds, though mine are already pretty fast.

What could be done is to add a new option to the library setup which is a simple as: Manual Refresh Only What might be better yet is to move the “Manual Refresh Only” checkbox to the section where you add libraries/directories. You could then set it per directory. This was you can setup your lib…

I have 45TB of media spread over 14 NAS drives. The “manual refresh only” would be a great start. I believe the meta data gathered on thetvdb website includes info on active or ended status of a show. Maybe that data could be used during a “quick scan” version of the scans. Excluding ended shows, o…

@spawn666 You mention 45TB across 14 drives, but what kind of CPU and how much RAM does your PMS box have? Are all these drives in the same box that runs PMS? What OS and version of PMS are you running? For comparison, running Update Libraries takes just over 2 minutes on my server, a full minut…

My PMS runs on a mac mini late 2012 model, 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 8GB 1600 MHz DD3 I have one 15TB custom mini atx freenas setup, The rest are WD my book nas drives (some with the white light bar, the rest latest model.) slowly expanding the freenas setup to increase network access speed performan…

@spawn666 said: My PMS runs on a mac mini late 2012 model, 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 8GB 1600 MHz DD3 I have one 15TB custom mini atx freenas setup, The rest are WD my book nas drives (some with the white light bar, the rest latest model.) slowly expanding the freenas setup to increase network acce…

@hthighway , the media is not stored on the PMS, all media is on NAS drives.

@hthighway ,not literally “forever” just long. Aseptically because the newer empty drives contain recent new shows, and are scanned last. :slight_smile: waiting for the new episode to appear feel like forever. :smiley:

Improvements and features for large collection users.

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New Scan Library option for 'active' running shows Feature Suggestions	6	186	June 10, 2021
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Suggestion: Stop scanning "ended" TV shows Metadata & Adding Files library-management	26	417	October 4, 2021
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