Metadata files not deleted when a movie is deleted

[Nabukodonosor 13]

I've noticed that when I delete a watched movie, all the metadata are still in the emby server folder. All cached images are there. How to make emby delete all that once the movie is deleted?

[Luke 42077]

HI, how did you delete the movie?

[Nabukodonosor 13]

Like always, in Emby I go to delete the movie, it asks me if I'm sure I want to permanently delete it, I confirm.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Can you provide a specific example as this sounds like it maybe platform specific.

[Nabukodonosor 13]

What do you mean? What do you want me to provide?

[Luke 42077]

1 minute ago, Nabukodonosor said:

What do you mean? What do you want me to provide?

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Thanks.

[Nabukodonosor 13]

Log file? Now, or should I wait until I delete a movie? I mean, it's simple, last night I watched and deleted the movie Brothers, and today I was searching for something and by accident found out that I still have images from that movie on my SSD, where my emby config folder lives. Or this movie, I watched and deleted this one last week:

https://prnt.sc/pzwtjgRJpZ4o

[Luke 42077]

The log file from when a movie was deleted, and please let us know what movie, and what files were left behind. Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, Nabukodonosor said:

I was searching for something and by accident found out that I still have images from that movie on my SSD, where my emby config folder lives. Or this movie, I watched and deleted this one last week:

Where were you searching?

Are you referring to cache images? 

if so they will be deleted when they become over 30 days old.

[Nabukodonosor 13]

Yes, cached images. Well, that sounds great.

So, in theory once I delete a movie, everything from my SSD (where emby lives, my movies are on a HDD) should also be deleted? Apart from the cache.

Edited February 26, 2024 by Nabukodonosor

[Happy2Play 9780]

Okay yes there is a hidden cache cleanup task that runs daily and deleted anything 30 days old and rebuilt as needed.

2024-02-26 02:45:20.961 Debug TaskManager: IntervalTrigger fired for task: Cache file cleanup
2024-02-26 02:45:20.961 Debug TaskManager: Queueing task DeleteCacheFileTask
2024-02-26 02:45:20.961 Debug TaskManager: Executing Cache file cleanup
2024-02-26 02:45:25.335 Debug TaskManager: Cache file cleanup Completed after 0 minute(s) and 4 seconds

But you can delete all cache at anytime and it will rebuild what it needs.

Edited February 26, 2024 by Happy2Play