Solved Any Plex Media Server users? (Problem with clean up files in Recycle Bin)

jimbo45 said:

Kodi works on those types of devices including latest Amazon Firestick models.Emby also installs on Amazon firestick but needs to connect to a host.

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I was going to give KODI a try. When I first ran the app on my Roku I got as far as the screen about Green and White User names, read the terms and decided to try something else. I just need a decent local streaming app and Emby (basic) seems to be a good replacement for Mezzmo. I tried Jellyfish but found it harder to setup the Metadata than Emby so I uninstalled it. Does Kodi show the Metadata info or just the folders and files like in Windows File Explorer? If it shows the Metadata I might give it a try someday.

antspants said:

SOLVED​

I obviously never looked properly in the past.

The cause seems to be a FreeFileSync job that was including the PLEX Database files. For whatever reason, when PLEX does a periodical scan, it overwrites Database files with new ones.

FreeFileSync was detecting these changes and constantly replacing and deleting files from a Mirror backup job.
So far after removing the job, nothing has appeared in the Recycle Bin, yet.

Will have to monitor.

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Glad you found it and reported back to us! Good find! I run Plex Media Server on my NAS (TrueNAS Scale). TrueNAS also keeps a remote server running on a Raspberry Pi in my travel trailer up to date over my WiFi (trailer is parked in my driveway) so that I can run Plex Server on it even without an outside network connection when camping. (Trailer has it's own WiFi router to create an internal network).

NavyLCDR said:

Glad you found it and reported back to us! Good find!

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Cheers.
It’s become obvious that PLEX is constantly updating database files, literally hundreds of times a day.
Now to work out why

antspants said:

Cheers.
It’s become obvious that PLEX is constantly updating database files, literally hundreds of times a day.
Now to work out why

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I've never paid attention to that - probably in settings is somewhere to set automatic scanning of library folders that needs to be turned off or adjusted.