"Offline" Deleting of Files

[Sammy 791]

This has probably been posted before and I think I may already know the answer having used Emby for so long..

My 94TB storage is nearly full because I'm a hoarder of everything I can grab such that there's more to watch on my server than I can watch in the balance of my lifetime even watching 24/7/365. Add to that, with today's prices for hard drives, I'm not adding another at this time.

I'd like to just delete old stuff using Windows Explorer for the quick and dirty method which I don't think is a problem and I even think Emby will recognize the change but should I kick off a scan after deleting excess junk I'm never going to watch? 

[TMCsw 286]

26 minutes ago, Sammy said:

should I kick off a scan after deleting excess junk I'm never going to watch?

If you have RTM enabled for the library(s), Emby will automatically take care of it. Otherwise, there is no hurry to re-scan, as it won’t hurt anything, but if you try to play a deleted item it will just throw an error (no big deal), the next scan will remove the entry completely. Just make sure you delete the directory, not just the videos.

[Luke 42870]

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but should I kick off a scan after deleting excess junk I'm never going to watch? 

It's probably a good idea. If you're deleting a huge amount of content, then it would be more efficient to shutdown the server, do the deletes, then startup and run a library scan. The scan will handle them all at once rather than thousands of realtime monitor events.