Getting a TON of removing item from database & deleting path in the log

[ryderjj89 33]

Emby updated last night on Docker to the latest version (4.9.1.80). This was around 3 AM Eastern time. Everything seemed fine. I watched something today during my lunch break, also fine.

 

Then I start getting over 75 notifications of "new movies" in my Mattermost server from my n8n webhook. I had to stop n8n because it was going to blow up the channel.

 

I look in Emby and none of my movies have images and it's doing a library scan. So I check the logs and there is a ton of this, for what looks to be for every movie I have. What is going on??? Full log is attached.

 

2025-10-03 14:11:03.209 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Movie, Name: Afterburn, Path: /movies/Afterburn (2025)/Afterburn (2025).mkv, Id: 1059342

2025-10-03 14:11:03.219 Info App: Deleting path /config/metadata/library/a8/a882d52b040281289d984548e5ab1d36

2025-10-03 14:11:03.220 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Movie, Name: Humane, Path: /movies/Humane (2024)/Humane (2024).mkv, Id: 1059346

2025-10-03 14:11:03.228 Info App: Deleting path /config/metadata/library/41/414203fd1d2898ac72e45fee90eb4c8d

2025-10-03 14:11:03.229 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Movie, Name: Relay, Path: /movies/Relay (2025)/Relay (2025).mkv, Id: 1059352

2025-10-03 14:11:03.234 Info App: Deleting path /config/metadata/library/6b/6b5fdaa3a745f83de7e62c903b9a84fb

2025-10-03 14:11:03.235 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Movie, Name: Robin Hood, Path: /movies/Robin Hood (2010)/Robin Hood (2010).mkv, Id: 1069410

2025-10-03 14:11:03.239 Info App: Deleting path /config/metadata/library/5c/5cf80f6c1f3ea25b45db71813a87cb0f

2025-10-03 14:11:03.240 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Movie, Name: Snake Eyes, Path: /movies/Snake Eyes (1998)/Snake Eyes (1998).mkv, Id: 1069411

2025-10-03 14:11:03.245 Info App: Deleting path /config/metadata/library/21/21e953b9e648b39fd55a8e2274e2694c

embyserver.txt

[Luke 42077]

HI, after the scan completes, does it happen again after that?

[ryderjj89 33]

7 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, after the scan completes, does it happen again after that?

I'm still waiting for the scan to finish. At about 98%. Is this some kind of automated thing that was needed for the "improved library and database performance"? It's never done this before with previous updates. I'm all for it if it will improve performance AND not break my metadata.

Edit: It finished the scan. Then I did a manual library scan and seemed fine.

Edited October 3, 2025 by ryderjj89

[Newagemby 1]

I'll second this behaviour - noting that it may take a day for emby to rebuild one library for me given its size (it's been at 91% for five hours). Meanwhile the resource drain is throwing up server unreachable errors when trying to watch anything from the other libraries.... Perhaps we can work on an update that doesn't remove entire libraries for next time. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

I wonder what the conditions are that users are having their Movies Libraries reset?

All my movies is added today - General/Windows - Emby Community

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, are you still repeated removing items in the server log?

[ryderjj89 33]

48 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, are you still repeated removing items in the server log?

No. It was only that one time. Do you know why it happened?

[Luke 42077]

15 hours ago, ryderjj89 said:

No. It was only that one time. Do you know why it happened?

It was related to the upgrade (for some users). Apologies for the disruption.