Phototranscoder generates 25k thumbnails for a library of 40 videos that gets cleaned every week

Do you just have the one client device? Do you leave Plex open? On which screen in the Plex app, if so?


Yeah. I think there’s a bug in Plex’s cache filename generation logic.

Huge size of PhotoTranscoder folder

It generates different cache filenames very often (or always?) for the same source and content.

In addition to the wasted storage space, this means wasted time calculating and saving the cache images. It also means the cache doesn’t work well (at all?) as a cache, when the previously-generated files aren’t used.

Plex will eventually delete old files.