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…

v.1.41.8.9834-071366d65 is released, does it / is it supposed to fix the bloating issue as promised? If yes, how? By optimizing database? No mention about procedure in the patch notes.

So I noticed this today.. I ran ChuckPa tool.. DB was well below a gig last time I had looked, had grown to over 10GB.. I am now back to reasonable size of 557MB after auto, and then vacuum. Thanks @ChuckPa Currently running 1.41.8.9834, so hope it doesn’t grow out of control again.

@mrjohnpoz “auto” does far more than what “vacuum” does. It does a full export + reload . Vacuum after Auto is redundant. (you’re compacting an already compacted DB) Auto does a full export (sorted perfect order). It then writes a new, fully sorted and compacted DB. Vacuum only removes th…

Yes. It will clean up the database during the scheduled tasks .

Yeah I know, I ran auto first - but the db was still showing 10GB in size.. I then ran vacuum after the auto had completed and it shrunk it down to 500MB size. 025-05-28 22.16.04 - Repair - Verify main database - PASS (Size: 10592MB/557MB). 2025-05-28 22.18.38 - Vacuum - Vacuum main database - P…

Unfortunately auto wouldn’t work for me in DBRepair as it said I didn’t have enough space even with 311GB free. Manually set it vacuuming and it’s still going. Looks like my db is over 100GB and no other apps are crashing due to low space. Just hope the process completes.

[image] mrjohnpoz: 025-05-28 22.16.04 - Repair - Verify main database - PASS (Size: 10592MB/557MB). 2025-05-28 22.18.38 - Vacuum - Vacuum main database - PASS (Size: 557MB/557MB) The sizes here are: (Size: Before MB / After MB) That shows Repair (part of Auto) did the reduction. Start…

[image] guygamer: Unfortunately auto wouldn’t work for me in DBRepair as it said I didn’t have enough space even with 311GB free. Manually set it vacuuming and it’s still going. Looks like my db is over 100GB and no other apps are crashing due to low space. Just hope the process completes. Un…

Hundreds of free GBs is not exactly a small size/amount allocated for a db that would probably take decades to reach that size, so I wouldn’t point fingers in that direction or anything that has to do with users. This is an almost inexcusable mistake on the developers’ side. Personally, I’ve starte…

Library.db size more than doubled in latest version

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AmazingRando24 May 29, 2025, 11:36am 217

Thanks @ChuckPa! DBRepair got me back in order. 42gb down to 1.4gb.

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