Selective Clean not working as Clean button is grey red

[lamyergeier]

My Library

My Library has following 2 paths.

I want to selectively clean only in the first path (i.e. /mnt/Secure/Video)
Second path has videos that are in external medium but not connected at the moment.

Selective Clean

In Maintenance, on clicking Selective Clean I get the following when I click /mnt/Secure/Videos

Observation

Clean button is grey red and nothing happens when I click it, it just goes down the folder tree.

Optimize Database

Is it a destructive operation? Will it delete data of videos that are in external medium but not connected at the moment.

Clean Generated Files

Can it be done selectively too, as I don't have external medium connected currently?

[Maista6969]

You'll need to click the '+' next to the path to add it to the selective clean (you can select multiple paths)

[lamyergeier]

@Maista6969 Thanks

Can you answer the following too

Optimize Database

Is it a destructive operation? Will it delete data of videos that are in external medium but not connected at the moment.

Clean Generated Files

Can it be done selectively too, as I don't have external medium connected currently?

[Maista6969]

Optimize database is not destructive and can safely be run at any time: all it does is run the ANALYZE and VACUUM commands on the sqlite database

Clean generated will only delete items in your generated folder so it cannot be done selectively: it should still be safe to run even if your library is disconnected since it only uses the database itself to determine whether or not files are "orphaned"