Server Version#: 4.87.2
Player Version#: Not applicable
So I started getting a lot of random videos added to Plex when adding new films. The videos have no details and cannot be deleted (I would attach a screen shot but I don’t have permissions to add). So I thought I might be getting some corruption in PMS DB, which has happened before due to an SSD cache I bought from Synology that kept corrupting the database (which were new and Synology didn’t stand behind by the way so I had to throw out 800GB SSD drives).
I have a task scheduled to run once a week to use ChuckPA’s Plex DB consistency check tool. Turns out is has been failing and never actually ran properly. I don’t know why. Below is the command I’m using in the DSM scheduled task
‘bash-4.4# /var/packages/PlexMediaServer/shares/PlexMediaServer/DBRepair.sh stop auto start exit’
So I tried to SSH in and my password (correct password) is rejected. I assume it is because I have 2FA set up and there is no way to use 2FA when logging on via a Mac using Terminal.
So I have 2 questions:
Is there any way of using SSH with 2FA or do I need to turn it off and set up again every time I want to SSH into the NAS?
Is there something wrong in the script for the scheduled task?
You’re not including the bash-4.4# part of the command in your scheduled task, are you? If that’s present in your scheduled task’s user-defined script, remove it.
As stated on the GitHub README.md, you can place the tool anywhere.
The recommended location (at the top of the Plex or PlexMediaServer) shared folder is to make it easy to access without use of quotes. (e.g. /volume1/PlexMediaServer/DBRepair.sh)
The tool detects the host it’s on and figures out all the paths so it doesn’t matter where you launch it from.
That’s where I have it hosted. Looks like the DB is healthy, so I have no idea why I’m getting all these temporary files. At times there is in excess of 1,00 of these files which have thumbnails of videos in other Plex library folders, as well as in Films. However, the temporary files only show in recently added Films.
Can you show a screenshot of the “Add folders” tab of the library or libraries where these unwanted thumbnails are appearing? Something similar to this:
As I mentioned in the original post, I don’t have permissions to upload attachments. Was the same issue last time I posted an topic 3 months ago. I assume I need to be some super-subscriber or have more posts on the forum in order to upload files.
Sorry, missed that part of your post. The main thing I wanted to confirm was that you only had media paths in your “Add folders” configuration, and that there was not metadata being stored in the included paths (much as @FordGuy61 suggested). What you’re describing is a common symptom of one or both of those being done.
If you’d like you could post an image to a service like imgur and link it here, or just check the above.
That might be it. It seems like all of Volume1 was in the library. I don’t recall doing that, but I’ve added JUST the films folder and removed the previous one. I will now go ahead and add some films and see if I can still reproduce the issue.
