Server Version#: 1.25.8.5663 Player Version#: So, some of us have big TV show libraries, and as you know, the bigger the library, the longer it takes to scan the various folders, populate files, and populate metadata. It takes longer for me now because my TV show library is just short of 15TB. I t…

[image] "Lock" item, library, or folder to speed up scans Feature Suggestions Problem: Some of my libraries are very large. I have tens of thousands of photos, for example. I’ve had to break these into decades to keep the library sizes down, but even then scanning one take…

[image] r00tH4cK3r: So, some of us have big TV show libraries, and as you know, the bigger the library, the longer it takes to scan the various folders, populate files, and populate metadata. I’ve a mid sized TV Library, 600 shows with over 25k episodes and it’s takes approx 10-15 seconds to …

In my experience, there is also a huge difference in scan time between the old and the new agents/scanners. Particularly, if your media is hosted in the cloud. Once I switched, my overall scan time went from more than two hours down to just five minutes.

I like how people automatically assume I’m using Plex incorrectly or not naming files properly lol. I have a crap ton of content spread over multiple storage drives. The scan time only increased recently because I added a lot of content to the library, which was much smaller before and scanned very …

I think you got it wrong. Folks like dokuro and tom are always here to help. Anyway, just to give you an idea of a big TV library that scans in under a minute: 241TB, 12,776 folders, 131,101 files. All in the cloud. You never told us if you’re on the new or the old scanner.

My apologies. I am probably using the old scanner. I thought I was using the new one but if your library is that large and it still scans faster than mine, clearly that’s not the case. On a side note, I would love to know what you use to host your cloud server. I am looking on expanding mine much m…

[image] r00tH4cK3r: I am probably using the old scanner. If your using the legacy scanner then that is the reason for your poor performance. That scanner is no longer being developed and as far as I can tell not getting even bug fixes anymore. It will likely get removed at some point in the…

[image] r00tH4cK3r: what you use to host your cloud server I’ve been using OVH for the past five years. A little pricey, but worth it if you want a capable dedicated server. On the storage side, all my stuff is in Google Drive.

New TV Show feature idea

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