Hello,
I have Plex running on a 250GB SSD. Most of the storage used by Plex has grown to 190GB of indexed files and metadata. I didn’t want to do an SSD upgrade if I could reduce the storage.
Are there any legacy files that will not be recreated if either of these directories are removed? Or are there any other suggestions to reduce the volume size? I don’t have video preview thumbnails turned on, but I did make the move to the new Music system when that rolled out a few months ago.
Thanks,
see https://support.plex.tv/articles/202529153-why-is-my-plex-media-server-directory-so-large/
and afterwards Moving Metadata on Windows
Hi OttoKerner,
Those resources have been very helpful, thanks for the assist!
Are you sure you don’t have video thumbnails turned on? You have over 100GB of .bif files; which are the thumbnails.
Yep, thumbnails were turned off. But I went through and deleted both the Media and Metadata folder, and reclaimed about 130GB. After indexing for the last day, with thumbnails turned on only for Movies, all is back to a normal storage usage.
Personally i’m thinking that whatever task was supposed to keep the database neat and tidy wasn’t working properly. But a purge of those two directories seemed to work out great.
Thanks!
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