C Drive nearly full because of meta data?

[Chi 1]

since using this suddenly all my C drive is nearly full its only a 120gb ssd. is there a way I can stop this?

 

Chi.

[Chi 1]

novice. how do I do this?

[Chi 1]

i used tree size. found its the actors details and some stuff from media browser would that change if i installed media broswer on another hd

[aspdend 177]

What I have done is move my IBN folder to the D drive ( a standard mechanical HDD) and kept the server software on my C Drive (240Gb SSD) and this works well for me

[Chi 1]

How did you do this?

[Chi 1]

Moving the ImagesByName Folder

The location of the IBN folder can be moved to a different location.

To do this, if you have an existing ImagesByName folder then copy/cut it to the new location. If you do not currently have an IBN folder, then create a folder called “ImagesByName” in the location you would like to store it, and then create the subfolders listed above. If your existing IBN folder does not have those subfolders then you need to create them if you are using Media Browser 2.2.1 (Codename Firestorm) or later .

Once you have done this navigate to the directory C:\ProgramData\MediaBrowser and use a text editor such as Notepad (not a word processor like MS Word) to open the file called “MediaBrowserXml.config”.

Look for an entry in this file that starts with <ImageByNameLocation>

There should also be an end tag that looks like </ImageByNameLocation>

Between these tags is where you need to put the path to your new ImagesByName location, e.g. \\Server\MediaBrowser\ImagesByName or D:\MediaBrowser\ImagesByName

So the end result will be:

<ImageByNameLocation>\\Server\MediaBrowser\ImagesByName</ImageByNameLocation>

or

<ImageByNameLocation>D:\MediaBrowser\ImagesByName</ImageByNameLocation>

Be sure to confirm that there is no hard return after the path and before . It must all stay on the one line.

Then save and close that file. MediaBrowser will now use your new location for ImagesByName.

Important Note: If you move the ImagesByName folder to a network location, this can cause a significant performance impact on Media Browser.

 

 

Credit to whoever wrote this on the website

 

http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/1203/what-is-the-imagesbyname-folder-and-how-does-it-work

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Moving the ImagesByName folder saved me a couple of gigabytes on the SSD. Not a humongous amount these days but it helps. My MediaBrowser Server folder is less than 1 GB total storage.

 

The above info is out of date though. MediaBrowser3 Server can be found in your /users/%username%/appdata/roaming/mediabrowser-server directory. You can get to your appdata directory by typing %appdata% in Explorer's address bar.

Edited January 6, 2014 by Wayne Luke

[ebr 16169]

Don't follow the instructions above.  Use the advanced section of the metadata setup area in the server dashboard.

[Luke 42077]

have you even looked into what folders are using the most space?

[Aussiedroid 56]

Just to add one other thing as this happened to my fathers MC after upgrading to MB3 that he still had all the metadata from MB2 location left on drive when MB3 scraped the data to the new location doubling the size! Make sure you delete or relocate this old data to free up some more space.