Server Version#: 1.22.3.4523 Player Version#: 4.57.2 I’ve seen a couple of Topics about this issue but I can’t tell what exactly the solution is. My server is slow to start playing media, it feels laggy and the Console window is constantly showing that it’s updating metadata for things it’s alrea…

UPDATE: Whoa - ok. I stopped the server and ran this command on the db from the Repair DB link with updated commands. “C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex SQLite.exe” com.plexapp.plugins.library.db “.output recover.out” “.recover” After that, I shrugged and clicked Optimize…and it…

take a look at this thread - [image] Can no longer update library database with sqlite3 Metadata & Adding Files I’ve been using sqlite3.exe with PowerShell on Windows to update my Plex DB for a while now and it stopped working after a recent update. I found this post and …

I was able to find some instructions that “worked” in so much as, after I ran the Restore DB commands using the PMS -sqlite format, it seemed to work. PMS just seems so delicate right now to me. I can do everything just fine EXCEPT the Optimize DB command. It instantly kills the service. But as …

Bump. This is still an issue for me - even though I have used the steps to fix a corrupted database several times on different days when it seems extra slow, I can’t even find documentation that says it also optimizes it when it does so. Does anyone know? Can we get a way to Optimize the DB from o…

The repair a corrupted database instructions have been updated, but the fundamentals are the same. It’s normal for Optimize to pause Plex activity while it completes. But obviously it should complete … How big is your database? How long have you waited?

[image] Volts: How big is your database? Mine is big enough that I stopped waiting for (what seems like) days to find out. 6500+ Movies 600+ Shows - 14,000+ Episodes With Preview and Chapter Thumbs for both. Optimize completes in - a minute (that seems long - probably less)? If you have …

My library isn’t as big as Juice’s, but yea - I used to Optimize it all the time myself and it never took that long to complete - and it didn’t kill any remote streams while it was doing it. It just started recently with the last (next to last now?) build. Once it “crashes” every other Plex proces…

The old database repair steps do a really simple “dump” and “read”. It means there’s no old junk in the database files, but I don’t think it’s exactly the same as what Plex does internally for Optimize. The SQLite .recover command is also very unlikely to do an Optimize.

Fair enough, but I ran Optimize a couple nights ago and it crashed. I ran that command and now Optimize is working as intended. It may be a coincidence but I’ll take the win. :slight_smile:

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hthighway May 23, 2021, 3:01pm 2

take a look at this thread -

Not sure why Plex is taking forever to update their help docs

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