Large files in Plug-in Support. Can they be purged?

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.25.2.5319-c43dc0277.x86_64
Player Version#: Browser
See a lot of tmp files in the path as shown below. Looking to purge unneeded files so I can free up more space. What are the options for this?

Path: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
CentOS 7 latest patch

[user@host Plex Media Server]$ sudo du -sh ./*
1.2G ./Cache
17M ./Codecs
4.3M ./Crash Reports
0 ./Diagnostics
62M ./Logs
4.7G ./Media
7.4G ./Metadata
4.0K ./plexmediaserver.pid
1.6M ./Plug-ins
28G ./Plug-in Support
4.0K ./Preferences.xml
4.0K ./Preferences.xmlOLD
0 ./Scripts
0 ./Updates

[user@host Plex Media Server]$ ls -lrth Plug-in\ Support/Databases/
total 28G
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 88K Mar 23 2020 com.plexapp.dlna.db
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 32K Mar 23 2020 com.plexapp.dlna.db-shm
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 318K Mar 23 2020 com.plexapp.dlna.db-wal
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 824M Oct 24 02:03 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-10-24
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 195M Oct 27 02:03 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-10-27
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 825M Oct 27 02:03 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-10-27
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 194M Oct 30 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-10-30
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 825M Oct 30 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-10-30
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 194M Nov 2 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-02
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 826M Nov 2 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-02
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 198M Nov 5 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-05
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 198M Nov 8 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-08-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 827M Nov 8 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-08-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 199M Nov 11 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-11-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 831M Nov 11 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-11-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 207M Nov 14 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-14-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 832M Nov 14 02:00 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-14-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 210M Nov 17 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-17-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 834M Nov 17 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-17-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 207M Nov 20 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-20-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 834M Nov 20 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-20-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 211M Nov 23 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-23-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 835M Nov 23 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-23-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 210M Nov 26 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-26-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 836M Nov 26 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-26-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 214M Nov 29 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-11-29-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 837M Nov 29 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-11-29-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 214M Dec 2 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-02-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 839M Dec 2 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-02-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 209M Dec 5 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-05-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 839M Dec 5 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-05-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 213M Dec 8 02:17 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-08-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 840M Dec 8 02:17 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-08-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 209M Dec 11 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-11-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 841M Dec 11 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-11-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 212M Dec 14 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-14-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 842M Dec 14 02:01 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-14-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 209M Dec 17 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-17-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 843M Dec 17 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-17-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 212M Dec 20 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-20-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 843M Dec 20 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-20-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 212M Dec 23 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-23-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 844M Dec 23 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-23-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 214M Dec 26 04:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-26-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 846M Dec 26 04:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-26-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 211M Dec 29 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2021-12-29-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 847M Dec 29 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2021-12-29-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 212M Jan 1 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2022-01-01-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 847M Jan 1 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2022-01-01-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 216M Jan 4 02:03 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2022-01-04-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 849M Jan 4 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2022-01-04-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 850M Jan 6 02:11 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 212M Jan 7 02:03 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2022-01-07-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 850M Jan 7 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2022-01-07-tmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 870M Jan 8 02:12 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-wal
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 6.7M Jan 8 02:12 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-shm
-rw-rw-r–. 1 plex plex 30M Jan 9 01:34 tv.plex.providers.epg.cloud-5d900dc4-23e9-49f7-8047-619081ada0ce.db
-rw-rw-r–. 1 plex plex 1.1M Jan 9 01:34 tv.plex.providers.epg.cloud-5d900dc4-23e9-49f7-8047-619081ada0ce.db-wal
-rw-rw-r–. 1 plex plex 32K Jan 9 01:39 tv.plex.providers.epg.cloud-5d900dc4-23e9-49f7-8047-619081ada0ce.db-shm
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 215M Jan 9 01:42 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 1.7M Jan 9 01:42 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-shm
-rw-r–r–. 1 plex plex 215M Jan 9 01:42 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-wal

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You don’t want to delete those… that’s your server’s database (at least some of them); some of the files are Plex’s rolling backup of the database which are created during the scheduled server maintenance (and will be deleted / purged as part of that).

Disabling the DLNA server should probably automatically delete the files related to that component – though those don’t seem to take up tons of storage capacity.

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And adding to @tom80H here

You do have a lot of -tmp files.

First time I ever saw those, and they can be purged

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Don’t have DLNA enabled. Can you confirm the ~tmp files can safely be deleted?

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Yes, look at their timestamp :wink:

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