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…

Even if it is going to run for 3days, this will still be shorter than recreating your Plex libraries from scratch. At least if you have been using it for more than a few months.

I’ve been on Plex for almost 20 years now :innocent:

Maybe you want to put in an exception in the settings of your anti virus software, for the plex data folder . Some A/V sofctware can really slow down things, or keeping a lock on certain files for too long until the app which needs it throws an error.

I had already set an exception for the entire Plex folder. and I can see that it is working on the DB files, but apart from the com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-shm file, which is now 1312 KB, I can’t see anything else. I hope it doesn’t go up to 500MB, otherwise I’ll have to wait over a year.:rofl:

Yesterday morning I got to watch my system as Plex attempted to Optimize Database as a weekly scheduled task, during which it was, I assume, attempting to fix my DB bloat issue (my DB is 85 GB!). However, as mentioned here, for this process to work I need a comfortable amount of free space on my har…

[image] jmrudow: Perhaps there’s a way to temporarily transfer something over there? I feel it’d be extreme to completely move/reinstall my whole Plex Server over there, fix the DB bloat, then move/reinstall it back on my hard drive…but is that an (only) option? Copy the database folder over …

Thank you for the detailed instructions! Most of that are things I have never done before, so I will need to research what…that all means lol. And find time to set aside to do it. “use the debloat batch file from above “ I went to that post - I’ll admit, I am completely lost. I don’t know how to us…

[image] jmrudow: I don’t know how to use/run a .bat/batch/script. (That post has a bunch of …code? … that I should… copy into something somewhere to “run” it? Precisely. If you mouse over the code, there is a “copy all” icon in the upper right corner of the code window. Use that to put the c…

(I found the “quote whole post” option! little wins lol…) [image] OttoKerner: [image] jmrudow: I don’t know how to use/run a .bat/batch/script. (That post has a bunch of …code? … that I should… copy into something somewhere to “run” it? Precisely. If you mouse over the code, there is a “…

[image] jmrudow: I’ve used a lot of forums in my lifetime and usually I can figure out the basics on my own… but I cannot for the life of me see how you quote another user’s post in this forum. That is very convenient in this forum. Just try selecting the text you want to quote with your mous…

Library.db size more than doubled in latest version

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OttoKerner August 18, 2025, 3:42pm 466

There is. The debloat script is just quicker.

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