Scanning a TV Section That isn't there....

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Hello All-

When I scan my libraries PLEX says it’s scanning “TV Shows” even though I have removed that library. TV Shows isn’t listed as a section in PLEX so why does it keep saying it is scanning this folder when it has been removed?

I removed that library to revamp it and I want to re add it in the next couple of weeks but I don’t want this old data that is obviously still living in PLEX somewhere corrupting/confusing PLEX when I re add it.

Can someone please tell me how I get PLEX to stop scanning a library that isn’t there?

thx.

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  1. Do you have the Plex DVR feature activated?

  2. Maybe what it is scanning is not the library “TV Shows” but a folder on disk, named “TV Shows”?
    Check your other libraries if any of them is pointed to a folder which contains a sub-folder named “TV Shows”.

  1. activate debug logging (not ‘verbose’!)
  2. quit Plex Server
  3. wait 1 minute
  4. start Plex Server
  5. wait 5 minutes
  6. fetch log files and attach them here

Or inspect them yourself. Take a look at the Plex Media Server.log file and seek for messages about database corrupt or malformed.
If you find these, you may have to repair your database.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201100678-Repair-a-Corrupt-Database