Server Version#: 1.41.7.9784 After cleaning up my libraries some weeks ago my library.db size used to be about 176 KB. I’ve only added about 10 TV episodes the latest days and refreshed metadata for a couple of shows and now the library is about 377 KB and after optimizing the DB from the Web UI t…

My com.plexapp.plugins.library.db is now sitting around ~60GB with another two of similar sizes (40GB and 60GB) from former days and a .db-wal of around 36GB. Not really sure which one can be deleted. Shut down the server for now to ease on the hardware.

The wal file is used for rollback. Once you run the commands above, and exit SQLite, it should shrink or disappear. It would help if you confirm what version of Plex you are running now, and if you run the commands above or not.

FYI my database went from 300mb to 89gb in the matter of a bit over a week. I noticed when my servers disk space was nearly full and found it, along with a few backup copies, taking up all this room. While I probably could have just restored the 300mb backup, I decided to fix the database as this i…

Is 1.41.7.9799 supposed to fix database growth? (Statistics) The fix for Bandwidth reporting was reverted as it was causing massive database growth I have 1.41.6.9685 running in Windows. The com.plexapp.plugins.library.db files is 672,915 KB. With 1.41.7.9799 running in Docker (OMV) the db file …

On my side the database stopped growing after the update. As mentioned before I had to clean the table manually to reduce disk space usage. But now after 2 days it’s not growing anymore. Thank you !

I had to restore a database from a week ago, as the previous backup was already bloated (1GB had grown to 27GB), and the repair failed to resolve the bloat. Now re-scanning the media that was added in the interim, hoping to avoid a repeat.

I wanted to share my experience with this as well, but please excuse my notes as I just jotted some items down quickly last night and was playing around with this rather late. I don’t really have track of which version my bloating issue started occurring at, but I tend to keep my PMS version up to …

Thanks for posting this. More reassurance for those trying to make the fix before Plex releases the minor rev that will make this mess go away. I run Plex natively, everything else in containers, so I ran a similar set of commands from CLI. I guess my question is what is fair game to delete once the…

Is the process of restoring the database from a backup on Synology NAS detailed somewhere? Would prefer ELI5 instructions if at all possible, as I just haven’t familiarized myself with this machine that much yet. I assume it’s not as simple as stopping PMS, then deleting the current db file and rep…

Library.db size more than doubled in latest version

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DTR May 22, 2025, 4:27pm 152

I reported this several months ago as well, and even with AV exclusions the files were not removed:

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Library.db size more than doubled in latest version

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