I have a very large Anime section, with 571 series, that’s quite many episodes. I deleted some stuff in the folders, because I was always using a Mede8er media player, and every single folder contained a folder.png and a about.png, which were need for the pictures displaying.
There were 29.200 pngs, so I deleted them as I don’t need them anymore. Straight after deletion, Plex started to scan the library again, but it doesn’t seem to stop, preventing me of scanning other libraries. I cancelled the scan after 3 days, but it starts scanning straight away again, after only some seconds.
How can I stop this scan, or do you thing it will stop at some point, meaning 4-5 days?
The library contains 14.684 files in 15.310 folders (4.36TB), quite a lot. As the Mede8er needed you to put every single file in a folder.
or lately I just skipped the Episode folder as I don’t need it anymore.
Anime\Name\Season 01\episode.01x01.mkv
The library was fine, no problems, until I removed those pngs, I guess it will be fine again after the scan is completed, it just doesn’t seem to stop.
/Season 01
anime name - s01e01.mkv
anime name - s01e02.mkv
anime name - s01e03.mkv
/Season 02
anime name - s02e02.mkv
This is exactly what I have, besides x instead of e, which doesn’t seem to be any problem, like I said before, all my series work just fine, also my Anime library, only scan takes long.
Over 4TB of data will do that, there’s no avoiding additional scan time in scenarios like that.
Just out of curiosity, has it finished scanning yet?
EDIT
You could split up your data, by using 2 or more drives, or partitioning your current drive (not sure about that one). Just some methods you could try if the additional scan time bothers you too much.
Didn’t finish yet, no. But probably because I cancelled the scan, so I guess it started from the beginning again.
Don’t split it, as I have it an a 2413+ Synology with 48TB.
Anyway, the scan is probably only happening because I did that png deletion, never bothered me before. Never scanned the whole library as I added series from time to time. And if I add another one, it’s just fine, takes 1 minute only.
Strange thing is only that I didn’t touch the structure at all, everything was working just fine. Then I deleted some files within the folders, not altering anything. I don’t even understand why the library needs to be scanned?
Deleting the files did alter the ‘changed_at’ timestamp of every subfolder, from where you deleted something. Which probably means in this particular case: all of the subfolders.
This now means Plex will scan every single one of these subfolders, to see if there is something new in them or if the files in there have been altered (e.g. new versions of existing files with better quality or additional subtitles or audio tracks).
Scan is finished, everything is fine, so basically in the end my only worries were needless, as it was only indeed a lot of time it needed.
@flow Thanks btw for your unnecessary comment, didn’t help me at all, and you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a definite enrichment to this site, thumbs up.
So what exactly do you think is wrong in my structure, the x instead of the e for the series? Probably over 50% of the people have this structure, as it’s quite common.
I grabbed ALL of my series from TVDb, and both of the letters work absolutely fine, I just stuck with x, as I thought it was more convenient.
