If I’m right it is not possible at the moment to run the scheduled tasks manually and you have to do it via SSH, change the scheduled time or wait until the next time the butler starts.
Wouldn’t it make sense to run the butler manually? Maybe you have done some media reorganization or deleted a lot of stuff and want do clean the cache files. As a sysadmin I want to be able to run a Cronjob whenever I want.
My suggestion is to add the checkbox start butler after choosing “Server>Clean bundles” to let the butler run.
What’s “the butler?” I’ve never notice anything named that although if I understand you correctly, I’d like a way to add files manually to libraries instead of waiting for Flex to get in the mood to do so.
Sometimes the scheduled tasks is called like this. Here for example.
I’m not talking about scanning regularly the libraries. Of course it make sense to add files and manually scan them whenever you like!
My point is: I prefer to decide when I want to wipe cache, generate thumbnails or whatever. It doesn’t make sense to wait until the tasks start or mess around with the times at “settings>scheduled tasks” If I want to start the tasks at 10:51 p.m. or so. Maybe I’ve added a lot of files or want to start it after I’ve finished watching a movie.
I second this feature. I don’t go to bed at regular times and would like to just start the task before I sleep and let it run until 5pm which is when it’s setup to stop.
I definitely second that idea: I would REALLY appreciate to run these tasks from cron according to MY schedule as well as on demand after, say, a significant amount of updates
I know WebTools can handle the on-demand requests, but again, running the tasks from within PMS would be big help!
As someone suffering from a bloated 577G Plex Media Server/Cache/PhotoTranscoder directory, I would like some manual control so as to better demonstrate problem and hopefully resolve source of issue.
As a followup, my 577G Plex Media Server/Cache/PhotoTranscoder directory was reduced to 64G by manually using the find command to delete 2.4 million files and then using jdupes to hardlink the remaining duplicates further reduced the total PhotoTrancoder cache to 2.9G.
I will continue to monitor, in one days normal Plex usage since reducing it, PMS seems to produce duplicate entries at a rediculously high rate, adding 1.1G to the cache of which 939M were duplicates.
