Shedule Auto restart Emby

[sfraga2003 6]

Hello Luke
Its possible add Auto restat emby on Shedule Menu to erase temp files?
Emby use all harddisk on windows in same time and i need restart emby to fix this.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what temp files do you mean?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes a specific example would be needed but you can look at the Restart Plugin or script an api call to restart.

 

[sfraga2003 6]

I need restart server to clean files in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\transcoding-temp

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, sfraga2003 said:

I need restart server to clean files in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\transcoding-temp

But the real question becomes what is leaving transcode sessions behind as I have not seen any left behind in a while, only empty folders now.

[bryan_remote 7]

Please forgive me here...  but I have a practice of restarting my emby server at least once a day in the am. today. I sat down to resume a show and it stopped playing midstream. I immediately restart emby and it plays with no issues. I have my server log attached. Does anyone see issues for a place for me to start troubleshooting? Restarting also seems to help my IPTV as well. I am not a newbie but not an expert either...

 

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Edited September 9, 2025 by bryan_remote

[pwhodges 2012]

Is your playback transcoding?  How much disc space is available for transcode buffers?

Paul

[JoLas 26]

I empty the transcoding-temp and the cache/subtitles on a weekly basis (maintenance window where a sheduled task in windows runs a maintenance.cmd) I run Emby as a service so it's just a matter of stopping the service from the script.
Most of the time the transcoding-temp is empty or only contains a few empty folders but then all of a sudden there's a bunch in it.

Sometimes users are having trouble enabling subtitles for movies/episodes they have already watched. Removing the subtitle cache works all the time for me so it's scheduled. I don't allow users to download subtitles, I'm quite picky so I provide them with correct subs for everything.