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Its a lot of steps to delete a show after finishing up watching it. Am I missing something? And Plex even puts the deleted show into the Recycle Bin on the server, so why is it so many clicks to delete it? -Bill
Because Plex wasn’t really designed for one-time plays. I’m surprised it’s in the UI at all. You’re telling me you spent all that time copying from your legally owned media to digital just to delete it after you’ve seen it?
Why go through that whole process?
If you’re referring to the TV show library, you can set up automatic deletion of video files after watching. You can find the “Delete episodes after playing” option in the advanced settings of TV shows, and you can customize when the files are deleted after watching, such as one day, one week, one month, and so on.
If you’re referring to deleting an entire TV show, you can find the delete button by clicking on the three dots in the bottom right corner of the TV show poster. This allows you to directly delete the entire show, provided that you have enabled the permission to delete files in the settings, which will remove the associated files as well.
@ChristianKent Our TV Shows record from our OTA antenna and after we watch them we delete them. They are not prized possessions and I am not in the habit of watching them twice. -Bill
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@x1ao4 What does [quote=“x1ao4, post:3, topic:869889”]
deleting an entire TV show [/quote] that mean? That is the method I am saying takes too many clicks. I used that a couple times last night, and it didn’t delete the series of shows, just seems to delete the one I had just watched.
We have been using SageTV for almost 20 years, it has a setting to ask to delete a show after watching it, we always have had that enabled, and have not had an issue doing that. And like I mentioned in the OP, Plex puts them in the Recycle Bin so even if you delete it by mistake, its simple to get it back. SageTV did not put deletions in that Bin so it wasn’t easy to get them back if they were mistakenly deleted. So, I am thinking there is no easy way to remove them unless I turn on that automated feature. I will try that, and set it for one day and hope it too puts them in the Recycle Bin. -Bill
Once you’ve enabled “Allow media deletion” in “Settings - Library,” you can delete items and media files directly within Plex. When you click on the three dots at the bottom right corner of a TV show poster, a “Delete” button will pop up. Clicking it will remove both the item from your Plex media library and all media files associated with it. It’s like deleting the files from their original location. Where the deleted files end up—whether in a recycle bin or elsewhere—depends on your file location settings. Once deleted, the files are gone for good; they won’t be stored in Plex’s recycle bin. Also, Plex doesn’t offer a way to recover deleted files, only metadata is retained in Plex’s recycle bin.
I am still looking for that option. It appears to be well hidden! I did find the Empty trash automatically after every scan and left it disabled. But the Auto Deletion is eluding me. -Bill
Hmm, I don’t see that dialog box. Is this something just for recorded shows? I am not using the Plex recordings function as when I tested it a couple years back it failed spectacularly. I deemed it not even close to RPT (ready for prime-time) to use as our ota recorder. I was hoping it could be set at the library level for all shows. I guess not if I am understanding this. 謝謝 -Bill
This isn’t a feature of recorded shows, and the content I screenshotted isn’t from recorded shows either; it’s from regular TV show content. This option isn’t part of the library settings; it’s set at the show level, not library level. And it only works for TV libraries, not Movie libraries.
As far as I know, you can only set this option individually at the show level; you cannot set it for the entire library. And there is a suggestion for Universal auto delete, you can vote for it.
Ah thanks! Setting that up by show seems a bit of naivete by the developers or the folks specifying the Plex roadmap. I find it odd that folks would keep shows they recorded and watched. Although I have had relatives that were hoarders. I have a buddy I spent a hole Saturday with him cleaning out his garage so he could get his wife’s car in there. But I noticed its full of junk again and no car can get in there anymore. I think she could get it in there for a couple months, no more than that. He is on his own cleaning it out next time. -Bill
After watching 5 or 6 shows over the last few nights its a truly confusing mess to delete shows that have been watched in Plex. I’ve never seen anything with such a poor user interface. In a prior life I participated in a lot of usability studies at Sony. And they had one of the worst interfaces imaginable on pre-release products. (and often after release) Just about every time the facilitator mentioned, that again, i was the only one in the study who could get thru it. (And I was struggling to get thru it) This deletion usability makes Sony’s interface look easy to use! And that’s not a compliment. -Bill
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