So, I was doing some clean up on my PMS which has been around for over 2 years, updated in place and I noticed that under C:\Users\PROFILENAME\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Updates I have 23 sub folders, each name corresponding to a previous PMS version. This is taking up about 1.98GB! Can I delete everything but the current version?
Better yet, can the updater/installer be changed to remove these old versions? At the very least only keep the previous version plus that latest?
It is safe to delete these.
2GB? If you’re worried about 2GB it’s time to shop for storage. I’ve got 3 episodes of Family Guy that’s 2GB.
When the next PMS Explodaversion is released (date to be determined) and you find out there are no longer any version archives you’re going to wish you had that 2GB of previous versions to fall back on.
At the very least you could copy that directory to a thumb drive to future proof your Plex server.
@JuiceWSA said:
2GB? If you’re worried about 2GB it’s time to shop for storage. I’ve got 3 episodes of Family Guy that’s 2GB.When the next PMS Explodaversion is released (date to be determined) and you find out there are no longer any version archives you’re going to wish you had that 2GB of previous versions to fall back on.
At the very least you could copy that directory to a thumb drive to future proof your Plex server.
I’m sitting on 20TB on my PMS, available storage isn’t my issue, I would just rather use that storage for my content and not useless installs. I’m also not going to go back to a version of PLEX from 1 let alone 2 years ago, I doubt my clients would support it. I do see the value of keeping 2-3 versions back, hence my suggestion. I’m bothered by this laissez-faire attitude towards space management and code cleanup. I have no interest in buying bigger hard drives just because coder’s get lazy and don’t think to clean up after themselves, especially since M$ doesn’t seem interested in bringing its server class data dedup to the client side anytime this decade. Now, I’m willing to cut the Plex coders some slack on this given the informal code development process they started with. Hopefully this post will highlight the issue for them and they will fix it in a future release. I guess this is now a feature request, since @MovieFan.Plex said it was safe to delete them.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
It is safe to delete these.
Thank you!
@sandpaperezox said:
I have no interest in buying bigger hard drives just because coder’s get lazy and don’t think to clean up after themselves, especially since M$ doesn’t seem interested in bringing its server class data dedup to the client side anytime this decade. Now, I’m willing to cut the Plex coders some slack on this given the informal code development process they started with. Hopefully this post will highlight the issue for them and they will fix it in a future release. I guess this is now a feature request, since @MovieFan.Plex said it was safe to delete them.
I have 3.2 GB of updates:
c:\Users\MaLaCoiD\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Updates>dir /a/s/p Directory of c:\Users\MaLaCoiD\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Updates 12/15/2016 04:17 PM <DIR> . 12/15/2016 04:17 PM <DIR> .. 04/18/2015 08:57 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.0.1071-7b11cfc 05/18/2015 01:00 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.1.1079-b655370 08/27/2015 01:03 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.11.1406-8403350 10/07/2015 01:00 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.13.1464-4ccd2ca 10/30/2015 01:01 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.18.1520-6833552 11/07/2015 02:02 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.19.1537-f38ac80 06/05/2015 01:00 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.3.1173-937aac3 06/23/2015 01:02 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.4.1192-9a47d21 08/07/2015 01:04 AM <DIR> 0.9.12.8.1362-4601e39 01/26/2016 02:00 AM <DIR> 0.9.15.2.1663-7efd046 02/17/2016 02:30 AM <DIR> 0.9.15.3.1674-f46e7e6 02/24/2016 03:06 AM <DIR> 0.9.15.6.1714-7be11e1 03/19/2016 03:07 AM <DIR> 0.9.16.2.1827-df572f6 03/22/2016 02:15 AM <DIR> 0.9.16.3.1840-cece46d 04/08/2016 03:30 AM <DIR> 0.9.16.4.1911-ee6e505 04/27/2016 03:16 AM <DIR> 0.9.16.6.1993-5089475 06/24/2016 02:45 AM <DIR> 1.0.0.2261-a17e99e 08/09/2016 10:49 PM <DIR> 1.0.2.2413-7caf41d 08/09/2016 10:50 PM <DIR> 1.0.3.2461-35f0caa 08/18/2016 02:10 AM <DIR> 1.1.0.2611-ba905d2 08/26/2016 03:19 AM <DIR> 1.1.1.2675-d00866c 08/27/2016 02:33 AM <DIR> 1.1.2.2680-09e98fb 08/31/2016 03:37 AM <DIR> 1.1.3.2700-6f64a8d 09/13/2016 02:54 AM <DIR> 1.1.4.2757-24ffd60 10/05/2016 02:27 AM <DIR> 1.2.2.2857-d34b464 10/26/2016 02:46 AM <DIR> 1.2.3.2914-1ff0f18 11/01/2016 02:22 AM <DIR> 1.2.4.2949-4e494e4 11/04/2016 02:45 AM <DIR> 1.2.5.2966-3f767e7 11/05/2016 01:23 AM <DIR> 1.2.6.2975-9394c87 11/09/2016 04:32 AM <DIR> 1.2.7.2987-1bef33a 11/23/2016 08:25 PM <DIR> 1.3.0.3059-6277334 12/07/2016 02:41 AM <DIR> 1.3.1.3102-a8accf1 12/09/2016 04:10 AM <DIR> 1.3.2.3112-1751929 12/15/2016 04:17 PM <DIR> 1.3.3.3148-b38628e 0 File(s) 0 bytes ... Total Files Listed: 34 File(s) 3,203,746,992 bytes
I guess I can congratulate myself on the 18 month up-time.I only have 8 GB free on my 100 GB SSD. I remember when 20 GB was fine for a OS install. . . oh my God! I’m an old guy ranting on the Internet. Anyway, just posting here to help Google know that it’s safe to delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Cache and to +1 the feature request to keep only the last X number of updates.
Old post, but I wanted to say thank you. It’s good that I don’t have to back 10gigs of update files if I don’t have to.
