GothsterC 44 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Hello, I am running the latest Emby on a Windows Media PC with a small storage stick. I always had enough storage space until I foolishly enabled the option to "Keep a cached copy of images in the server's metadata folder" for my Movie library. I unchecked that but I am still using a lot of space. Where are those cached copies kept and how can I clean that up to get the space back. BTW, I also moved my cache directory to a separate drive so that freed up a few GB. The folder using up the most space is the Emby-Server/metadata/library at 145 GB and I have only a 256 GB stick. I know I will have to get a bigger one eventually but is there any way to clean this directory up or move it elsewhere? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Yes I believe that is the folder but not sure how easy it would be to purge this after disabling the library setting. @LukeI will guess the database will point to the cached images in /metadata/library when this option gets enabled, correct? As this is the default for when you don''t save with media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothsterC 44 Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 I'm performing a full metadata refresh (but without replacing the existing images-I keep them all in the media folders) and the library folder is slowly getting smaller. It's now down to 142 GB. I still have a way to go, so maybe this is all that needs to be done. I will report back when it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37068 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Under the server metadata folder, do a recursive search for any directories named imagecache and thumbnailcache and delete those. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothsterC 44 Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Thanks. I just want to make sure I don't mess anything up. For instance, I have this directory: ...\metadata\library\00\00<many chars>\imagecache I've noticed that in those similar directories without imagecache, there is a single file called poster.jpg for the movie poster in the parent directory. If I remove the entire imagecache directory, will the poster.jpg in the parent directory be regenerated? Do I need to do a metadata refresh? Or should I copy the poster.jpg to the parent directory before deleting imagecache? Also, I should only remove the imagecache and thumbnailcache, not the parent directory, correct? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37068 Posted February 27 Solution Share Posted February 27 Quote only remove the imagecache and thumbnailcache Only these and nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothsterC 44 Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Thank you. That worked! I have the storage space back now and everything appears to be working even though the folders containing imagecache are now empty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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