• Login
  • Register
  • Login Register
    Login
    Username/Email:
    Password:
    Or login with a social network below
  • Forum
  • Website
  • GitHub
  • Status
  • Translation
  • Features
  • Team
  • Rules
  • Help
  • Feeds
User Links
  • Login
  • Register
  • Login Register
    Login
    Username/Email:
    Password:
    Or login with a social network below

    Useful Links Forum Website GitHub Status Translation Features Team Rules Help Feeds
    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Subtitle Storage

     
    • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average

    Subtitle Storage

    124GB of subtitles
    CleverId10t
    Offline

    Junior Member

    Posts: 24
    Threads: 5
    Joined: 2023 Jun
    Reputation: 0
    #1
    2025-12-12, 10:57 PM
    At some point in time the subtitle storage appears to have gotten a little out of hand on my jellyfin 10.11.4 on Ubuntu using official docker) install.

    Using ncdu to go through the directory that is used by the docker image there is 128.3GiB in /data and 12.3 GiB in /metadata

    Within /data there is 124.3 GiB in data/subtitles and 1.7GiB in data/introskipper

    Within /subtitles, I'm seeing files in the tens of MiB, which I presume are extracted image based subtitles.

    As my jellyfin server now has sufficient CPU to do most things live, I'm happy to try going back to not having extracted subtitles and have turned off the scheduled task to extract, however how would I go about cleaning up extracted subtitles from the database?
    crobibero
    Offline

    Core Team (Server & Plugins)

    Posts: 311
    Threads: 0
    Joined: 2023 Jun
    Reputation: 23
    Country:United States
    #2
    2025-12-13, 06:54 AM
    Extracted subtitle state isn’t stored in the database so you can safely just delete the files from the folder.
    CleverId10t
    Offline

    Junior Member

    Posts: 24
    Threads: 5
    Joined: 2023 Jun
    Reputation: 0
    #3
    2025-12-13, 10:58 AM
    Thanks!
    alleycat
    Online

    Member

    Posts: 120
    Threads: 20
    Joined: 2024 Sep
    Reputation: 1
    Country:United States
    #4
    2025-12-13, 11:03 AM (This post was last modified: 2025-12-13, 11:07 AM by alleycat. Edited 3 times in total.)
    (2025-12-13, 06:54 AM)crobibero Wrote: Extracted subtitle state isn’t stored in the database so you can safely just delete the files from the folder.

    On my NAS I have my Jellyfin dataset shares set as read-only. Even though I have store subtitles along side of movies (I know it needs to be set read-write) it's storing my external subtitles in /var/lib/jellyfin/metadata/library/, in what looks like random directories, how can I go back and correct this issue?
    Can the external subtitles be moved or deleted?

    I recently installed Open Subtitles plugin hoping to get only Forced Subtitles (yes, another story) and ran into this issue.
    Jellyfin 10.11.4 on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Server: OptiPlex 7050 i7-6700 32GB ram (headless)
    Arc A310, Storage: TrueNAS Mini R Raidz2 45 TiB, Netgate 4200 PFsense/HAproxy

    « Next Oldest | Next Newest »

    Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)


    • View a Printable Version
    • Subscribe to this thread
    Forum Jump:

    Home · Team · Help · Contact
    © Designed by D&D - Powered by MyBB
    L


    Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System

    Linear Mode
    Threaded Mode