Server Version#: 1.19.3.2843 Recently Plex server stopped honoring the setting: TranscoderTempDirectory="/plex/tmp" It created a directory /tmp/pms- and files in /tmp that look like random uuids. I have only recently ran into this issue after running PMS for at least 5 years. The files and dir we…

Specifying a dedicated temp directory for Plex is as easy as writing a service override and assigning a value to TMPDIR. /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf in it, place: [Service] Environment="TMPDIR=/path/to/temporary directory" Am I correct, that a specific PLEX_MEDIA…

Oh good! So it does use TMPDIR var. I wish it would use the Preferences.xml so it is easy to set from anywhere. The way I’m setting it is to create an override.conf file in /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d. I put these items in the file: [Service] Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR=…

What you have there is ok except that EAE_ROOT is not user-facing. Moving the TMPDIR is sufficient.

Ah! Ok. It appears that before the new feature, the Preferences.xml file did what I needed it to do. This is not good enough with the skip intro feature. Hopefully tonight, the PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR setting fixes the issue with /tmp. My recommendation is that there is a clearly labeled setting (…

Settings - Server - Transcoder - Show Advanced: Transcoder temporary directory __________________________________________ Directory to use when transcoding for temporary files.

[image] ChuckPa: Settings - Server - Transcoder - Show Advanced: Transcoder temporary directory Yes, that is the setting I’ve had for something like 5 years now. The problem is that EAE_ROOT doesn’t know about that setting! I hope that this disconnect will be fixed.

Plex uses the /tmp directory by default. It’s always been this way. I do not know where the idea of being able to set EAE_ROOT came from but it is not user-facing. It comes from PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR. If the system doesn’t have enough ram, given /tmp is usually tmpfs (from ram) on Linux, …

The idea came from me because I noticed it in the log file. The override.conf didn’t work. It is still using /tmp. I used the prescribed method for overriding the contents of a .service file. The systemctl show plexmediaserver shows that it is picking up the ENV variables from the override.conf: s…

As I stated above: It’s an internal variable PMS generates , per transcode session, for the transcoder to use There is no user-facing variable.

Re: point 2 I think the request is if one can be exposed.

PMS stopped honoring temporary directory setting. Now uses /tmp

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Disputin May 24, 2020, 4:24pm 20

I am having the exact same issue on Ubuntu 18.04/systemd.

So should I apply the override to systemd or is there a fix in the pipeline?

I can continue to delete files if there is an imminent fix coming soon.

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PMS stopped honoring temporary directory setting. Now uses /tmp

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