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I have 2 servers (both runnning in docker containers) that mount the same media directory from my NAS.
One is brand new and I was investigating why the Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/ folder was around 25% larger on my older server.
It appears that plex never removes old versions of posters and other artwork if they change over time.
When viewing one of the bundles I noticed the following in the *.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters
root@docker:/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/0/048543973975dfb0ba757ae8b205b4337196959.bundle/Contents/_combined/posters# ls -lh
total 6.7M
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 382K Aug 31 2023 tv.plex.agents.movie_2f053fa010e828d2a1febf38f7d3ec5c6139f297
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 500K Mar 25 04:41 tv.plex.agents.movie_8daeae860588025dbbf6a3b6bd50bcf022d6852a
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 160K Jul 14 2022 tv.plex.agents.movie_9489e90426fd661c91027ece7792eca3c46d2cf3
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 868K Dec 7 2022 tv.plex.agents.movie_ae29557ad56ba99706ca624ab7c0a310a5183e37
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 4.9M Apr 27 03:31 tv.plex.agents.movie_e2280b9ced1a67e9ac5da11d34791f45d38708fd
Looking at the timestamps it appears those posters have changed over time and the old ones never removed.
Copying that directory to my laptop and looking at that folder you can see that they’re all different posters for a single movie.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can clean these up so I can reclaim the several gigabytes of disk space that they’re consuming
