Metadata taking quite a lot of disk space

mjitkop · June 24, 2026, 11:32pm

A picture pretty much says it all:

Obviously, I don't want to delete anything but just wondering if the data is compressed in any way.
I'm guessing the data is a mix of text and pictures so could the text be compressed to reduce disk space?

chDVRuser · June 25, 2026, 12:02am

The Metadata directory contains the video indexes of recordings/imports.
There should be a couple .m3u8 files in each file# directory under Metadata/
You can view them in a text editor since they're just m3u8 files.

The folder may also contain additional metadata if you enabled Deep Video Processing under Library Database Settings.

jsfullam · June 25, 2026, 11:40pm

What file browser are you using which gives you the size of each sub-directory like that? That feature could be pretty handy.

mjitkop · June 26, 2026, 12:32am

I'm using the free version of a Windows program called TreeSize. It's made by JAM Software.

jsfullam · June 26, 2026, 1:26am

Thanks! I'll give "TreeSize" a try!

Shaggylive · June 26, 2026, 4:16am

so the app its-self hasn't been updated for 10 years, but i've been using it for almost 20 and it does update the apps inside as available. lots of goodies for windows that I don't have to hunt down everytime on a new install.