Server Version#: Version 4.43.4
Player Version#: Roku
I’m having a strange issue of movies disappearing. I thought I was going crazy at first, but recently I’ve started to notice movies that I know I have in my library just not there anymore. My wife had mentioned it to me recently as well, movies that we both remember watching on our Plex are just not there anymore and I have to re-add.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Is there something I can do to get a report of files that vanish off of my system?
Maybe some kind of daily scan with a compare of the last scan?
Settings - Server - Library - ‘Show Advanced’ - “Allow media deletion”
Disable it and see if you continue to have movies vanishing from your server afterwards.
Didn’t you mention of your wife in the first post? So there is at least two persons. Depending on the language setting, there might be a misunderstanding what the “Delete” menu item actually does. (It deletes the actual video file, instead of just removing the item from the Plex database.)
Another idea: are you strictly talking about movies or do you rather mean tv show episodes? Because there is a setting which is able to delete “watched” episodes automatically.
Otto, I mentioned my wife telling me that she told me movies she knows she’s seen have also disappeared, so it’s not just me saying it.
I don’t have that setting selected, I try and save everything.
It just started happening to me too. My last three added movies suddenly are hidden from the library (no file deletion) and if I scan the disk, it shows up again. That’s the second time today.
I’ve had the same problem myself. I’ve been using Plex for nearly a decade and am the only one with access to my server. The files are deleted from the library and from the server. It’s random and has been reported by others. @mike5906 is a user who has a backup server and has noted the files being deleted from the main server and still existing on the backup. It’s getting frustrating to track down this issue.
Definitely an issue, because I’ve been dealing with it for years and shouldn’t have to. I’m a collector of movies and don’t have the time to go through thousands and thousands of movies to see which ones are being removed randomly. It’s a bunch of bull that people keep blowing it off saying to look at the stupid delete media option… give us a little credit. Maybe there really is a bug and we’re not too dense to ignore it. Admit it’s a problem and fix it already… please. I have rare movies and TV episodes that can’t be replaced. I’ve been lucky so far and have avoided any irreplaceable ones from being removed… eventually, I’ll be screaming at someone and don’t want to get to that.
At this point I’ve decided to build a backup server like Mike5906 did. It will cost me a few hundred dollars but will keep my movies safe. The money spent will be a lot easier to swallow than losing movies and wishing I had taken measures to prevent that.
I’ve started to notice this happening too. I was certain that I had already ripped my Peppermint BluRay but when I went to watch it, it was missing. I thought that was odd and must have been mistaken. I have hundreds of blu-rays and so figured I just forgot so I ripped it again. But then I had a rip of Top Gun that I had personally edited to take out the sex scene and some of the language so my kids could watch it. And THAT movie was missing. Not just from Plex, but completely gone of the drive, no where to be found. It’s a major bummer because I probably spent 2 hours editing that movie and now I"ll have to do that again. Anyone have any idea why this is happening? Could it be windows doing it?
I have 3 hard drives on the plex server. I’ve now lost movies from all 3. The drivess pass all diagnostics. I’ve not lost any other files for any other systems on that machine. I’ve never deleted a movie through the plex client. I delete them in windows only. And never delete anything that isnt a duplicate. Plex is doing something funny. No question about it.
No, should I? I’m not even sure what you mean by “manage” movies, lol. I just rip them and add them to a drive connected to the server, then watch as I feel like it. What kind of “management” is available?
