Plex Red Trash Can Icon

The PLEX TRASH will not automatically be emptied unless the quotEmpty trash automatically after every scanquot setting is enabled in the quotLibraryquot section of the settings of your PLEX server. NOTE In the event you remove a drive and reconnect it, your media items will become available, be restored and all will be back to normal.

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Some of my TV shows have a red trash can on the show poster on the app.plex.tv web page. If I open the show, there is a large red quotUnavailablequot tag present for the show, and the season poster has the red trash can. If I open the season, there is the large red quotUnavailablequot tag.

Empty Trash for a Particular Library. If you only wish to empty the trash for a particular Library, you can do so from within the Library. Open Plex Web App Go to Settings Select the desired Plex Media Server Open the Libraries menu Hover over the desired library and press the button and select Empty Trash Confirm the action

As the title says, I have a red trash can icon that shows up on a single season of a single TV show specifically, it's Season 2 of quotInterview

Just try to play and episode with a trashcan to make sure. The trashcan shows up because plex cannot find the old files anymore. There is an option to empty the trash from your libraries to have the icons go away. FYI the empty trash in plex only is for the links in plex. Plex never changes the files in your library.

simply empty trash for the library. This shows up all the time for me because im transcoding h264 content to h265, so plex will think i have 2 copies of the same episode different filenames, but it cannot find the one file. Emptying the trash will remove the missing file from the database leaving just the one file

Sometimes Empty Trash doesn't make the delete icon go away. Plex gets in a tizz about it and the solution is a lite Plex dance. I notice this happen a few times because I'll replace a season with higher quality files and Plex picks up up straight away, but then I use Sonarr to rename the files and I think Plex just doesn't handle that really well 100 of the time. Mostly it does

Hi, so in my library when I go to app.plex.tv a handful of shows are showing this trash can httpsi.gyazo.com4263debd4645b2d16286c3a3f9ba1e67.png I don't know

The trash can appears on your posterscovers if that item is no longer accessible visible for Plex. This can happen if the media is actually gone, a drive is no longer connected or Plex has no longer permission to see it. The trash can icon will also show on an album if this happens for an individual song same for showsseasons if an episode