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How to reduce the amount of cash and metadata - yamanobe - 2024-02-13

Hello, I have been using jellyfin for a few days now.
After you first register songs and start operating the library
We did a lot of things to make the library better, such as changing the artist name and adding or removing songs.
As a result, Docker's cache folder and config/metadata folder contain a large amount of
There is a large amount of unused data remaining before the change.
It is very difficult to select and delete these manually, but does Jellyfin have a function to delete unreferenced data?


RE: How to reduce the amount of cash and metadata - TheDreadPirate - 2024-02-13

Unreferenced metadata should be cleared out immediately. The cache is cleaned out daily (there is a scheduled task that you can manually run).


RE: How to reduce the amount of cash and metadata - yamanobe - 2024-02-13

thank you!
It wasn't set so I enabled it!