I think I've found a bug in one of the updates within the last year. I know for sure that this did not happen around 8 months ago (maybe slightly more). Previous behavior is that the content versions would be stacked, and the local non .strm files would be preferred.
My movie library consists of multiple folders. Some contain media files, one contains .strm files.
I had a series in my library as media files, and I have auto merge series across folders turned on.
If I have a
Actually, it looks like the leak was triggered again somehow automatically after the strm version of the movie was removed from the library. I am unable to connect remotely to that machine now and will have to get someone on-site to power cycle it to regain access. When able, I will see if removing and re-creating that library stops that issue.
Please let me know if it is worth my time to try to re-create the issue with a tv series, and if you want any other logs once you've had a change