Recovering from failed Blobs DB

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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@Skrie

If your existing main DB is the one you want
then this is what we’ll do.

  1. Stop PMS
  2. Delete all the blobs DB files
  3. Delete any WAL or SHM DB files. (these are transactions which aren’t completed)
  4. Start PMS
  5. Scan all files (every library section)
  6. Refresh all metadata (every library section)
  7. Make sure your “Scheduled Tasks” is set to analyze media during maintenance AND has several hours (this will help blobs rebuild quicker)

Over the next few days, monitor the size of the blobs DB.
If you have a lot of music, it will grow quickly as PMS processes the music again.

Intro and Credits detection might also run.

All you need to do is be patient with it as it catches up again.