Need Help....scanning media files keeps failing

[Ronstang 294]

This is something new, just upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 a few days ago, not sure if that caused this but all of a sudden I cannot add any files to any libraries.  Server log is below.

EDIT...The log says something about database disk image malformed....but I don't know what that means

 

Thanks

embyserver.txt

Edited January 22, 2023 by Ronstang

[Luke 42083]

Hi, please see this and it should help get you squared away:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44002210894-corrupt-database

[Ronstang 294]

Those instructions don't work since when I shut down the emby server those two files disappear from the data directory and you cannot delete them when the server is running because they are in use.

[GrimReaper 4749]

18 minutes ago, Ronstang said:

Those instructions don't work since when I shut down the emby server those two files disappear from the data directory and you cannot delete them when the server is running because they are in use.

If they disappear (as they should), skip that and proceed with db integrity check (and/or recovery).

[Ronstang 294]

Thanks, that is what I am in the process of doing right now....I just skipped to the next step

[Ronstang 294]

DB Browser doesn't have a function to recover the database and I cannot find the command line tool on the SQ-Lite webpage.   The integrity check didn't show any errors but there were a few lines it reported as missing in the index.

[Ronstang 294]

Screw it, I just vacuumed it which didn't help so I renamed it and let emby build it all from scratch.....probably time as it has been running like this for 3 years with all kinds of temporary libraries added, some deleted.....lots of bloat.

This is my testing server anyway, I have a new machine with a clean server that I will soon migrate all the "complete and tested" content too so people who watch won't have any issues, just enjoyable content.

Edited January 22, 2023 by Ronstang

[Ronstang 294]

Wow! That was the right move.....the new database is only 2/3 the size of the one that got corrupted and about 8% smaller than the vacuumed version so it was definitely full of junk