Hello there,
Just like jaquestati, I have a MASSIVE library (but not as big for movies or TV shows) and my search bar started ignoring articles completely a few months ago.
At first I thought it was the new search bar that was the culprit so I waited for a fix. No big deal and I can still search for a specific content directly into my libraries if necessary.
But yesterday I searched for an old movie that we have in common with a friend on our respective servers and the search bar found it on my friend’s server but not on mine.
Unless I remove any article from the search… then it’s instantaneous.
I remembered then that I had imported all my music (over 500k items) from my selfhosted Airsonic into Plex at the same time because Plexamp is just way too good to be ignored.
To me, this must be the real culprit.
According to many answers on this topic, it has nothing to do with size but I can’t find anything else to explain it.
Creating a new and fresh library with problematic content doesn’t show on Search with articles.
Creating a whole new Plex server solves this.
I don’t know what to do from here.
Can it be fixed? Delete my music from Plex? Move it to a second Plex instance?
