Menu: Prune

• PRUNe - (Option 21): Remove Old PhotoTranscoder Cache & Temp Files

  • Overview: Removes .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .ppm files in the PhotoTranscoder cache directory older than 30 days (default), and pms-* files and image files more than 1 day old from /tmp and the Plex Media Server temporary directory. Under normal operation Plex Media Server manages this automatically as part of its Scheduled Maintenance. Under certain conditions it fails to; this command allows you to manually remove what it would normally do. remove and purge are accepted as synonyms for prune.

  • Availability: Runs only when Plex Media Server is stopped.

  • Technical quirks & behavior: The cache age can be changed with --cacheage N or the DBREPAIR_CACHEAGE environment variable (see Command line options). Prune does not ask for confirmation; it removes the files and then reports how many were removed.

  • Info (for reference only): Initial pruning might take longer than expected, and nothing is displayed while files are being removed. Execution time, using a Synology DS418 as benchmark, is approximately 50,000 image files per minute. Some machines will be much faster, some slower. Please be patient; DBRepair has not hung.

  • Safety status: Safe — Only cache and temporary files are removed. The databases are not touched.

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