Occasionally Plex records a tv program, but then deletes it before I ever get a chance to watch it. Others have told me to simply move the file out of the Trash. Okay, but I can’t find a “trash” folder. The .Trashes folder is empty. So where is the Trash located? My set up on my Synology NAS is the standard Plex set up; except for this quirk with recordings, everything else is working fine. I just need to know where to find the Trash so I can restore a file before it is permanently deleted.
Plex itself doesn’t have a separate trash from the underlying OS.
Not all platforms have a trash, some have restrictions e.g. as for the size of files which can be added (meaning bigger files could get immediately deleted by the OS even if there is a trash).
So when Plex automatically deletes a file, it’s gone beyond recovery? Some of the Plex documentation talks about moving things from Trash, but I can’t find where that file folder could be. For now, I have all TV shows set to Never delete, and I’ll delete them manually, but that is hardly elegant for a solution. I do appreciate your response, though.
Plex tells the OS to delete a file. If configured accordingly (see Synology link above), the OS will move that file to its system trash folder (see Synology link above). If you didn’t enable the trash option for that particular share, DSM will directly delete the files.
