# Sessions not being removed from dashboard **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [May 19, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174 "2025-05-19T01:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ItsThatJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a587f6/32.png) [@ItsThatJA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ItsThatJA)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/1 "2025-05-19T01:42:26Z")
I’m having an issue where at 2:37AM i have 9 active streams, 8 of them are paused and I never have anyone active at this hour, some of them are stuck on paused. I’ve noticed this happening throughout the day and usually restarting Plex removes the sessions. Its happened 3 times now, so I believe for whatever reason when they have finished their playbacks the server isn’t releasing their sessions from the dashboard. Is there anything that could be causing this to happen? I can’t even stop playback as the admin, they just remain there. ---
**Author:** ![JCHH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jchh/32/84326_2.png) [@JCHH](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JCHH)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/2 "2025-05-19T08:23:00Z")
I’ve noticed this with the 'Plex Experience" player on my AppleTV, but not a problem with the current player. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/3 "2025-05-19T08:26:29Z")
See if you’re affected by this: [Library.db size more than doubled in latest version](https://forums.plex.tv/t/library-db-size-more-than-doubled-in-latest-version/918851/1) ---
**Author:** ![JCHH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jchh/32/84326_2.png) [@JCHH](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JCHH)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/4 "2025-05-19T10:28:42Z")
looks OK to me… ![Screenshot 2025-05-19 at 11.28.30](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/optimized/4X/6/6/1/661b34620c11f6e645edd7e912d59387409da3ee_2_690x47.png) ---
**Author:** ![ItsThatJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a587f6/32.png) [@ItsThatJA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ItsThatJA)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/5 "2025-05-19T17:05:22Z")
My database has remained at a similar size to what it usually is. Worth mentioning that when it does happen the server also doesn’t honour the “Pause duration” setting which for me is set to 15 minutes. I think this is because the client at the other end isn’t actually connected and its probably a plex dashboard bug on the WEBUI.. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/6 "2025-05-19T20:46:01Z")
> [@ItsThatJA](#): > > Worth mentioning that when it does happen the server also doesn’t honour the “Pause duration” setting which for me is set to 15 minutes. Not sure what you mean by this. What kind of Pause is that? Is that a setting in Plex? ---
**Author:** ![ItsThatJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a587f6/32.png) [@ItsThatJA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ItsThatJA)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/7 "2025-05-19T22:07:23Z")
Yes, its this one. ![Screenshot_20250519_230642_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/6/1/5/615593da761916375d44d824dfc93ebbde23f651.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/8 "2025-05-20T06:49:15Z")
This setting is just a thing for misbehaving users and client devices. Don’t get into the habit of pausing playback indefinitely. Particularly on the web app and the Plex for Desktop app, always use the ⏹ to fully close the player controls. The server will store the playback position for you anyway (as long as you haven’t played more than 90%). Reason for this is that even paused playbacks will keep the playback session alive on the server and taking up resources. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sessions-not-being-removed-from-dashboard/919174/9 "2025-08-18T06:49:28Z")
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