Hi there, one of the main joys of the plex was to be able to setup a screen saver with some good music in the background. This is what prompted me to buy the lifetime plex pass. But recently (2-3months) everytime I tried to get the photos to show - it takes so long that nobody is interested in waiting to see it!
Please HELP! Whats going on?
Hover over Libraries
Expose the ellipsis (...)
Click it
Click Optimize Database
Hi @ChuckPA - Thanks for you response, I have started the optimize - looks like its for the WHOLE library… Will keep you posted.
@ChuckPA Well - Bad news… A couple of hours after I started the optimize… it did not respond. So I decided to give it a good 10-12hours of overnight running. And this morning… NO RESPONSE. I went into the NAS DNS Station and saw that the package/service was still running. So I went and stopped it and restarted it, STILL no connection! I refreshed it… Still no connection. So now I am worse off than before 
What to do?
I have uploaded the PLEX ERROR LOGS and version information from the NAS UI..
I need to see the PMS Logs directory contents.
Open File Station -. Plex - Library - Application Support - Plex Media Server - right click Logs - Compress to Logs.zip
Attach that zip
if you cannot see the Plex share. Control Panel - Shared Folders - Edit the Plex share. Add your username… Save… close and reopen File Station
@trumpy81 - I appreciate that you are super responsive!! Thanks.
Can you help with this one too? According to @ChuckPA
“In the very first log file I examined, you have invalid text files.
When a file begins with 0x0d 0x0a , it’s a windows text file. (CR LF)
Others are premature End of file (Incomplete file / damaged file)
I do suggest you verify your image files first.”
I can write PowerShell Script files if necessary from my PC, but I dont know what to check for or how to cleanse through a directory which has 10’s of 1000’s of files!
Will do, I will check and get back. BTW the problem files are “photos” not videos. I have some videos and photos mixed in that drive but 95% photos. Thanks
Ok, so I wont go after that script. What am I looking for ? A particular file property that can uniquely say that this is a “Plex Approved” Photo - My goal is to improve the speed of the photo library… I created a new library and its still slow.
Thanks @trumpy81 Good idea of breaking down the photo collection across several libraries… I have 10’s of 1000’s of photos 
from back when my son was born - now he is 19! Is there a good “bundle size” for photos. I have also cleaned them up all to ONLY be JPGs assuming that will help.
Looking for ideas on how people have successfully uploaded and streaming MPEG, MOV and MTSS (from Sony HD cameras) video files. Thats been my unattained dream with PLEX…
@trumpy81 thanks… I have close to 65K photos in years just upto 2013! And if I were to keep 1000 files or less per photo library… I’d have way too many photo libraries… Any other ideas? other than spending months curating the photo!
As far as the videos are concerned, they are basically the following formats AVI, MPG, MOV, MPEG, MTSS (Sony HD Camera)… I tried using Handbrake to “stream” and that did not make much of a difference in streaming. It would buffer after 2 minutes… and I am able to stream a 2hr long movie without any problems!! I had used handbrake… on those… and they never buffer!
