old/unused metadata cleanup

[marauder 17]

Is there a way to clean up or remove old metadata from the system. I have all my metadata stored on a dedicated SSD drive instead of with the files. I found it to be much quicker loading doing it that way. I used to have a library folder path for temporary files which i hadn't watched then they would get moved to their final location. I'm worried this caused a lot of duplicates. I've since removed that directory. 

Just wondering if the system auto cleans up metadata if the file isn't there or if there's a way to I can trigger it to it.

I deleted the folder, but my metadata usage did not decrease.

I've got 721 Movies, 12000 tv episodes, 3000 Music files. My metadata drive is currently 45gb which seems pretty large. 

I'm reluctant to delete a folder in my library and readd it as I went through and made sure each file had the correct metadata and photos(banner, primary, logo)

Is that sizing normal? I worry as my SSD is only a 64gb as i figured that would be plenty.

[Luke 39418]

 

 

Just wondering if the system auto cleans up metadata if the file isn't there

 

Hi, yes it does.

 

45gb is a bit high, but it all depends on what metadata related features you enable, number of images set to download, chapter image settings, etc.

[marauder 17]

This is a search of my directories.

 

root@unraid:/mnt/disks/emby/metadata/metadata# du -sch *

124M    People

4.0M    channels

46G     library

0       views

46G     total

root@unraid:/mnt/disks/emby/metadata/metadata# find . -type f -name '*.json' -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

1016K   total

root@unraid:/mnt/disks/emby/metadata/metadata# find . -type f -name '*.bif' -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.7G    total

2.9G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.8G    total

2.9G    total

434M    total

root@unraid:/mnt/disks/emby/metadata/metadata# find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

83M     total

89M     total

100M    total

124M    total

91M     total

93M     total

81M     total

95M     total

96M     total

73M     total

69M     total

141M    total

root@unraid:/mnt/disks/emby/metadata/metadata#

[Happy2Play 9316]

Yes that is a little large but as Luke mentioned it depends on setting also.

 

The \library folder contains item images and chapter images and now all Artist and People (cast and crew) images.

 

But for what you have shown above, what is taking up so much space in \library as it would not appear to be jpg images.  

 

Can you check png files?

[marauder 17]

Almost nothing for png files

root@unraid:/mnt/disks/emby/metadata/metadata# find . -type f -name '*.png' -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

69M     total

 

 

I noticed I did have enable chapter image extraction on for my movies folder. I have unchecked that(couple hours ago) but as I only have 721 and the images don't take up a lot of room it doesn't seem like that would be the cause.

[Happy2Play 9316]

Nothing you have shown so far would explain it.  Especially for the amount of media you have listed.  I know my stable server has a 62GB people folder and a 10GB library folder, but that is for roughly 30TB of media (6000 movies, 41056 episodes).

[Happy2Play 9316]

Don't know anything about this OS but maybe look for large files in the library folder/subfolders.

[marauder 17]

From the output it seems like the bif files are what’s taking up all the space as I think the output is just groups to be added up as I couldn’t seem to get it to display just 1 total. Each bif was 3-8mb.

Unraid is a Linux system similar to freenas/omb. Emby is running on docker.

[Luke 39418]

Yes that would make sense. Good investigation.