Trash

The Trash page is the safety net under every destructive subtitle action. When Sublarr deletes a sidecar (.srt, .ass) or removes a foreign track from an MKV, the original is moved here instead of being unlinked. From the Trash you can either restore items or permanently delete them. After the retention window expires the cleanup scheduler drops them automatically.

What lands here

Source	What’s kept	Default retention
Cleanup → orphan sidecars	The deleted .srt / .ass plus its sibling files (forced/HI variants).	30 days
Cleanup → format upgrades	The previous-format file replaced during upgrade.	30 days
Wanted → Cleanup Sidecars	Every sidecar the cleanup removed, as one sidecar batch per run.	30 days
Stream Management → foreign track removal / foreign-track cleanup	The original .mkv before the remux pass.	7 days
Quarantine of another episode’s subtitle	A downloaded subtitle found to belong to another episode — by a refused sync or by Search again under Subtitles of another episode — as a restorable batch.	30 days
Subtitle Editor → save	The pre-edit subtitle as a .bak sidecar (managed separately, see Subtitle Backups).	30 days

Note

Items are grouped per movie/episode so you can review what would be restored before you act. Restoring a sidecar batch puts every member of the batch back at its original path — unless a file has been saved at that path since. That file is never overwritten: the old one stays in the trash, is counted as failed, and the batch is kept.

Sidecar Batches

Each row represents one delete operation that swept a set of sidecars. The header shows the originating media file, the count, total size, and an expiry badge.

Column	Effect
Media	Path of the video the sidecars belonged to.
Count	Number of files in the batch (one per language/variant).
Size	Total bytes about to expire.
Expires	Days until automatic cleanup. Red when ≤ 0, amber when ≤ 3.
Restore	Puts every file back at its original path. A file saved at that path since is never overwritten; the trashed copy stays, is reported as failed, and the batch is kept until everything is restored or deleted.
Delete now	Frees the disk immediately without waiting for the retention window.

MKV Backups

When stream removal rewrites an MKV, the pre-mux file is kept here so you can roll back if the remux corrupted timing or audio:

Column	Effect
Original	Path of the source MKV before remuxing.
Size	Bytes the backup occupies.
Expires	Same urgency colours as sidecars.
Restore	Replaces the current MKV with the backup.
Delete	Drops the backup.

Caution

Restoring an MKV backup overwrites the file that’s currently in your library — including any subtitles you’ve added since the original remux. Confirm before clicking.

Stats Bar

The header strip totals expiring items across both batch types so you can see at a glance whether anything urgent is pending.

Tile	Counts
Sidecar batches	Distinct delete operations still in trash.
MKV backups	Pre-remux files still in trash.
Total size	Combined disk footprint.
Expiring soon	Items due to be cleaned within 3 days.

Where the retention windows are configured

MKV backup retention is Backup Retention (days) under Settings → Subtitles → Stream Management (default 7; 0 keeps them forever). The foreign-track card under Settings → Cleanup shows the same value in its Automatic sweep section and links there. Sidecar batches follow subtitle_trash_retention_days (default 30; 0 keeps them forever), which has no field in the UI and is set through the config API. See Subtitle Backups for the editor’s .bak retention, which is configured separately on the Old Subtitle Backups (.bak) rule under Settings → Cleanup.