One of the biggest annoyances I have with Plex currently is having to do the “ Plex Dance ” whenever I change a piece of data that Plex doesn’t change well on rescan; such as album art, certain pieces of metadata, folder reorganizing, etc. The option to simply remove the files without deleting from th…

Thanks for the suggestion, but in 95% of the cases I personally need to do the Plex Dance it does not help.

I’m not sure what exactly won’t be picked up when changing the underlying information… changes to local artwork or metadata should be picked up when refreshing an item’s metadata (no scan needed) changes to the folder organization will require a file scan and should be picked up… if you’re doing m…

Sometimes refreshing metadata helps, sometimes it doesn’t. Right now I have an artist I changed the name of to match the artist’s name on a different album as an attempt to stop it from showing as 2 different artists. Refreshing metadata does not help. Matching does nothing. The Plex Dance fixes pre…

Option to remove / delete files from Plex without deleting it from disk

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napolij April 1, 2026, 3:53pm 2

If you click on the 3 dot the show poster and click “Unmatch”, does that do what you want without having to do the plex dance?

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Option to remove / delete files from Plex without deleting it from disk

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