Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Real stories from the Jellyfin community: corrupted databases after power outages, lost watch history from failed 10.11 migrations, drives dying with no backup, and accidental rm -rf on config folders. Each story includes what went wrong, what could have prevented it, and the exact recovery steps. Plus a complete disaster recovery playbook you can implement today.
Jellyfin 10.11 moved everything to a single SQLite database managed by EF Core. Over time, this database grows, fragments, and slows down. This guide covers VACUUM, integrity checks, WAL management, activity log cleanup, and automated maintenance scripts to keep your server fast.
Jellyfin dashboard taking forever to load? Library browsing feels sluggish? This guide covers the real causes - slow metadata storage, EF Core 10.11 regressions, large library enumeration, plugin overhead, and database bloat - with proven fixes.
