OK thanks. I'll keep looking and if I find it I'll reply here to possibly help out any others that are interested in deleting labels but having this kind of issue.
Not sure if the API & Feed Explorer would show Labels?
I just added a Label to an Imported Movie and the Label appears in the API & Feed Explorer
You could use the CSV output and import that into a spreadsheet
Thanks. I don't usually use the API & Feed Explorer. But I tried what you said and it doesn't show the label or other labels. But, I'm only using the Browser's find function to find it. I chose all recordings, watch/favorited/verified options but I noticed that in the JSON or CSV I can't find anything using the browser. Also, when I scroll down the JSON I don't see all my recordings. Just the most recent 100 or so recordings. Am I missing something on that page to select ALL my recordings and to search them all?
I just saw your edit and you mentioned placing the output into a spreadsheet which is great. But I need to include all my recordings and not just the last "N" amount of recordings.
Thank You! Yup that saved everything and I find all my labels except for the SSD one I'm looking for. Since I created that label a long time ago I'll wait for some natural DB rebuilds and cleanup that normally happens over the next couple days to see if that label does indeed finally disappear.
Thanks again, that is a great url/command I'll keep for future debugging!
But I'll keep looking around since maybe SSD is mentioned in some rule or whatever that isn't part of the CSV that was created.
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If you want to see what shows the label ssd is attached to just go to server side only settings on a client and choose the allowed setting, and add the ssd label to it.
That client will only shows with that tag. All others will be excluded.
Thank you @Rice. I used @chDVRuser method to get all the information and it didn't show it on any recordings. It was easier for me to do it that way since I'm running on a linux server and I could grep that file or I can put it into a spreadsheet if needed for any other reason.
I noticed that the items in the Trash were not included in the csv discussed above. I tried different variations of the url specified above but couldn't get any information on the Trash items so it is possible (but unlikely) that something in the Trash could have that label. Also, I just noticed that I have another label "Peacock" that is still hanging around and there is nothing that has that label. I don't think I've used that label in many months so I don't think it's with something in the Trash. If the normal cleanup doesn't get rid of SSD and Peacock I may need to live with them since I can't find either one in any rule, collection, personal section. 
It's 5 days later and both labels are still hanging around so I think I'm stuck with them. If they ever disappear I'll post here unless the topic closes.
Why don’t you just empty the trash and then check?
Sadly, I go into the trash multiple times so I hate to empty it. Although, to speed things so we don't have to wait 5 more days I just emptied the trash after looking at the most recent deletions to make sure we won't need them.
I monitored the log and it completed the deletions and the web interface says there is nothing left in the trash. I then stopped and restarted channels just in case a restart would clean anything up in the DB.
I then went into a collection and clicked on the "Labels" dropdown and I still see SSD and Peacock which are the only 2 labels that still remain that I wanted to delete.
I'm glad to try anything else or give you any other information to help troubleshoot this issue with these last 2 labels.
Have you tried DVR Web UI Settings > General > Library Database > Maintenance :gear: > Regenerate Search Index lately?
Sorry, yes I should've mentioned that previously. I've ran that many times and I just ran it again since I didn't do it after emptying the trash. The labels are still there. I also, just used your API command to get all the recording info and I still don't see the labels in there. 
The Public API doesn't include Trash.
This Private API doesn't include Trash http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr/files
This Private API includes Trash http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr/files?all=true
Thanks, per above I couldn't figure out how to get the trash. I didn't realized there were private API's. So I opened up a browser on my linux server where channels is running and then used the private API you mentioned above including the trash and I'm getting the 404 Not Found message. To make sure I didn't do a typo I cut/paste your post's url. Am I supposed to do something else to access the private API?
Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of your DVR server
Replace 8089 with the port it uses
It will return a json
Corrected my post. I forgot to add the /dvr/files
Was going from memory, but think I had a stack overflow there 
Oh, then I would've thought that was the public API, I thought to access the private API I would've need to use the loopback address like you had in your url. I changed it to my server's IP and it worked. I didn't realize you had to use the server's network address.
I still don't see SSD anywhere. But I guess I should mention, my label was SSD in all upper case. In that debug output there is SSD but not in all upper case. That string exists in jpg and png filenames. So maybe the labels code is not case sensitive and if it finds that string anywhere it keeps it even though it's not a label and just in a filename?
Ah, I just saw your edit. So it sounds like you don't have to be on the server itself for the "private" API since I used the corrected url on an external server and it works there too.
Oh, BTW, thanks for the extra debugging information since I'm saving those urls for future reference!
I don't use all the features of Channels DVR, so not sure where a Label can be specified, besides a Movie.
Maybe Collections, Playlists, Smart Rules, Server Side Only (Hide/Allow Content) Settings, Automatic Tagging, etc. 
Search the Support Articles for Labels https://getchannels.com/docs/search/?q=labels