Multi Select Delete??

[jdfisher 2]

What happened to being able to delete multi selected episodes?

[Luke 42085]

Hi it was inadvertently removed. It will be coming back. Thanks.

[Lyfesaver 133]

Luke, might you know what version it was last active in? I am thinking the best way to get rid of the crap stuff collected over the years is to install that version on another PC and have it build libraries and get meta so i can mass delete.

[Lyfesaver 133]

BUMP (my question, not the OP)

Figured bumping this rather than start as new thread

[Carlo 4561]

If you want to mass delete, would it not be best to do this outside of Emby?

[Luke 42085]

We are looking into it. Thanks.

[Lyfesaver 133]

On 7/26/2020 at 10:47 AM, cayars said:

If you want to mass delete, would it not be best to do this outside of Emby?

No current app I have allows me to sort by community/critical rating that also supports mass deletion. I am going to have to install one. If I have to install anything why not an older version of Emby that I might be able to copy my data too another PC and go to town. Let the production Emby do its thing and detect changes.

So the answer is sadly, "no". If I have to install another app, using one that I already know, already have data for, etc makes it much easier than any other option out there.

I am just asking for when it was last working. If it was  3.x then my data and such would not be as useful I suppose.

 

[Carlo 4561]

Because it may not delete the way you think it does depending on your disc layout and version used.  Put 4 movies or 100 in one folder and delete a single movie.  Sucks when the folder is deleted that held your movie & others, but works great if you do one movie per folder.

This is my personal opinion, so take it only for that and you're welcome to disagree.

The issues it that Emby Server isn't in charge of your disc layout and tries to cope with all different ways people set things up from one video per folder to 40 movies in one folder named "Tom Hanks" to someone with "c:\movies" filled with 5,000 mkv files in it (plus gobs or graphics) and many other wacky things.  It's next to impossible to delete this properly as you have no idea what belongs to a movie.  The person could have two or more different system (ie Plex, Kodi Kali, NextPVR, Media Master, etc) pointed at the same media with graphics and support files so unless everything is tidy and in one folder how is Emby to know what to properly delete? Sure it could delete strictly the media but then other things get orphaned.

Now a proper media manager will track your contents from square one through a pipeline of operations so it knows how to delete info.  You can filter all Spanish & Indian language films without English tracks that are 4K or SD and get a list to delete because it knows all this.  That's the kind of tool you want for mass deletions based on filters or for moving things or processing the media (adding specific tracks, converting to h.265,etc).  Emby's not the tool for this because it was never designed to do this nor should it.  Separate functionality requirements.  A professional race car driver is never the person building the car. Emby is built to stream your media, not manage it.  On the other hand a media manager won't stream your media but can manage and process it very well.

Now deleting things in Emby DVR is a different story IMHO because Emby manages the folder structure and created everything in that section, so it should be able to delete specific movies and shows properly.

Also don't know this as fact but probably most admins don't really delete media in mass.  They'll delete bad media or replace it with better copies but typically don't remove content as we grow our libraries over time for an ever expanding set of libraries. I'm sure they are people who also rotate content and only care about a couple hundred movies and few shows, watch them remove them and load more as well.

So maybe you disagree with me and others who feel this way, but hopefully understand why many of us don't want this type of functionality in Emby more than say simple deletes.

Edited July 28, 2020 by cayars

[Lyfesaver 133]

Jesus....

I guess nobody wants to or simply cannot answer the question I have asked twice: "What version was it last working on?"

On 7/26/2020 at 2:20 PM, Luke said:

We are looking into it. Thanks.

Does not even begin to answer it because I do not believe "We are looking into it" means we are looking to see which version it last worked on. I thought it was a straight forward question that did not invite others to tell me how I am doing things wrong or advice on how to do things better or reasons why one person believes it should not ever happen.

I was able to install Plex, sort by rating and then delete all movies that had a rating of less than 5/10 stars.

Edited July 28, 2020 by Lyfesaver

[Carlo 4561]

I'm trying to stop you from making a mistake by loading an older version just so you can delete mass content. Emby wasn't designed to do this!  Installing older versions of software on top of a newer version is not advised for starters because of database and other changes that take place between versions. 

Emby wasn't designed to be a media manager and may not track your videos the way you think it does or should for the purposes of deleting.

Older versions have issues with deletes for some people not following best practices for library setup. Newer versions fix this with confirmations and other safe guards but this isn't a task that Emby should really be used for.

Adding back multi-delete isn't something easy (I hope it never comes back but not my decision) as it needs a lot of testing because Emby doesn't control the folder layouts as I've previously mentioned and it's not near a simple thing to do properly as you might think.

I'm trying to save you from making a mistake you'll regret later.  If you insist on continuing down this path of using an older version just for mass deletion then at least read this thread first and consider yourself on your own as you've been warned not to do this. And please, don't even consider this if you don't have one movie per folder!

Please read 

 

[ebr 16194]

It can be dangerous to go backwards in versions and we can never know exactly what may happen so that's why we don't support doing that.  We do plan to bring back multiple delete functionality but it does need to be carefully designed and tested.

Thanks.

[Lyfesaver 133]

It's sorted now. And I do understand all of those things. Thank you