Isn’t there a way to keep those? Optimizing solves all my viewing issues… I optimize for original quality my TV shows and episodes… Once those episodes are watched, Plex deletes the versions.
Seems like a waste of time for the CPU and server. Why not allow to keep them so I don’t have to run the process again. These, unfortunate to admit, that are just rerun shows anyways, but, it’s what the audience wants to watch, so…
If it’s a concern for disk space… I have maybe, not sure exactly, but, 26 terabytes free, so, disk space not an issue here.
Choose whether or not the optimization should apply only to items that have not been watched. If this option is selected, then once an item has become “watched” it will no longer be part of the optimization job.
For instance, if you optimized the “5 most recently added unwatched movies” and then watched one of those 5, the optimized version for that particular movie would automatically get removed.
Close, but, not… Not what I am asking at all… I am asking, once the optimization has been done, keep the files for future use… Once they have been viewed, they get deleted. I don’t want them to be deleted. Please read the original post and comprehend the problem.
ok, see, that is helpful… my apologies… I have enabled that setting… Understand now and will check this… so, this would prevent that with that setting off.
To be clear, optimized versions do not get deleted because they are watched. You would have to manually delete them. If the original is deleted for some reason, such as the setting mentioned above being applied, then the original is also deleted.
yea, I totally understand… it’s one of those once in a life time things though… what I mean, yea, happened to me, but may never happen again to anyone else. It’s just a software issue, I know, retired after 40 years of developing software, don’t want to do it, but, will jump your ass if your wrong… lol
as long as people see the resolve, I’m good… take care…
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Yea, you don’t understand the issue at hand. The files get deleted. Setting a limit only applies to limiting the the number of files to optimize… Meaning, if you have 24 files and the limit by default is 5, then only 5 files get optimized, not all of them. You should try the options yourself and see.
after the test, check your deleted files list… watch a video, even partially, then mark it as watched…then look at your recycle bin…
changed, by that I mean, fix it so the files don’t get deleted… don’t make me go OMG on you…
Not quite. The optimize feature works like a smart filter. It is not a run and forget it task. The criteria you set will always apply for the job so what optimized versions exist will reflect this criteria. If you optimize an entire library, then as you add new items to the library, they get optimized since that is the criteria. If you remove something from your library, it also removes the optimized version since that version no longer matches the criteria.
So setting the limit to optimize 5 unwatched movies, means only 5 optimized versions can exist inside this job. i.e. If you choose to optimize 5 unwatched movies, then create an identical job to optimize 5 unwatched movies, it does not optimize the next 5 unwatched movies, you’ve basically duplicated the first job, but there would still only be 5 optimized versions. There is no mechanism to keep an optimized version outside of the job.
What you are looking for is a way to convert files using Plex to permanently keep in your library. There is no option to allow that and that is not the intent of the optimize feature.
Depends on the time of the day, actually… It takes a while and the system is set to shut down at a certain time.
If it’s early, then I set that count to the actual video count in the folder. Or, you can do one file at time from the season, which I do if it is later in the day.
All I would like is to have Plex not delete the video once it is watched. I have tried both settings and I get the same results. “watched or unwatched” that is…
