To not delete library items if not found

General Discussions
1

I’m using Amazon Cloud Drive to store all my media, as they offer unlimited space. There are several programs to make the drive work as an external drive, so I simply have a new unlimited drive T:\ where all my videos and music are.

Now, here’s the thing: it’s slower than a regular hard drive, and sometimes fails and gets randomly dismounted when heavily used. Plex works flawlessly with it, but sometimes, if the cloud drive disconnects while updating the libraries (mind you, it’s several teras big and takes a long time) then Plex DELETES all the library data and I have to start all over again (which sucks, specially if I had personalized the library).

It would be useful if Plex had an option (just a tick check box will do) for “Don’t delete library information if item not found” or something like that, because it’s very, very, annoying when it happens.

2

Turn off “automatically empty trash after each scan” in server settings. I think that will somewhat mitigate your problem.

3

You mean I can restore items previously shown at the library? How? I mean the library information, not the actual video which is actually there.

4

If “empty trash” is off then items that are not found during a scan but were there previously would be displayed with a trashcan icon and that icon would go away when the item is again found. If you attempt to play one of the items with a trashcan icon Plex will try to find it and if it does it will play and if it does not it will report an error.

That is, without empty trash turned on, the trashcan icon is simply an indicator that the item was not found on the last scan.