What is in "AppData\Local\Temp" Directory?

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#:Most recent on Windows 2016

What is in the above folder that Plex needs? It is over 30GB, and PMS is the only thing running under this account.

TIA

jandk

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it is used for various things but guessing it might be Credit Detection not cleaning up after itself properly. There is a fix for that in latest beta 1.31.3.6819

FIXES:

  • (CreditsDetection) Improve temporary directory clean-up (#14169)
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I just took a peek. There were 500k thumbnails. Thousands were of a “5 hour energy” ad.

This brought my server to its knees. Ouch.

I’m deleting everything. I’ll check in a day or two and see if it builds up again.

Very odd.

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In addition to the credit detection cleanup fix:

Why is my Plex Media Server directory so large?

[HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows

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Thanks FordGuy. That directory is only 10gb, which I can handle. Overnight, Plex wrote 3gb of 40kb thumbnails into its temp directory.

What a charming little glitch. I guess I’ll install the beta.

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