Adding a movie file to multiple sections

Feature Suggestions
1

sometimes i want to give people acccess to just a subset of my movies. right now the only way to to do this is to duplicate (on the file system level) those movies into a new folder then create a section from that folder in plex and share that section to a specific user. this is not very elegant and a waste of space.

 

i've tried to alias/symlink the files into a new folder instead. plex will see and scan them but won't play back (probably because the user doesn't have access to the files at their /original/ location).

 

wouldn't it be possible to implement a system (in the plex interface) whereby we can add the same movie file to multiple sections?

 

 

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Poor man’s solution. Let’s say you have Movies and Shared Movies. You would make sections like this:


Movies

  • folder movies1
  • folder shared

    Shared Movies
  • folder movies2
  • folder shared


    Where movies1 contain private collection, movies2 only those you wan’t to share, while folder shared contains titles that should appear in both sections.


    Does it work?
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I symlink everything and don't have any problems with it. I created a group 'media', and added myself, a couple of family members and the plex user to it and gave read access rights to my movies directory. I don't know how your access rights are set up, but symlinking is definitely a good solution.