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What is a metathumb and may I delete them?

What is a metathumb and may I delete them?  I seem to have hundreds of them and together they take up a lot of space.

.metathumbs are “thumbnails” or “poster” images for your movies and tv shows.

sure, you can delete them if you want … but you’ll lose the thumbnails and poster images for all your media

if you already have jpg (jpeg) thumbnails for all your media … in that case, yes delete the metathumbs

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