PROBLEM: Photos > Browsing > Grid View: Parsing of (sub) Folders is Broken.
STEPS:
0 With current Plex Media Server, share a Folder called “pics”
1 Inside, have 4 folders named 1, 2, 3, 4
2 Have 10 pics each inside these folders
EXPECT: In Grid view in the iOS App you should see the first thumbnail of each folder and the folders sorted 1, 2, 3 and 4
RESULT: When Grid view is invoked the files are sorted 4, 3, 2, 1. The pictures may “spill over” to the top level sorted “flat” as if there is no folder at all at the top level. This is problematic especially if you’ve made “magazines” of pictures.
NOTE: Originally no sorting criteria was set, so I expected ascending, with the first thumbnail of any folder or first subfolder within to render a thumbnail. But pictures were “spilling” to the top level.
This build is attempting to parse subfolders as separate folders.
So I have
images1
images2
images3
pics
gifs
_IMAGES @images
In this new build, sorting is listing like this:
_IMAGES @images
images1
images2
images3
pics
gifs
(pics and gifs “bleeding in” to the flat listing)
Some of my Folders contain prefixed “_” “@” so these should be tested as well
EXPECTED is to go back to the nested, ordered listing as with Plex iOS stable.
I mainly use Plex for 2 things:
1/ Spooling video to Roku Players.
2/ Making “Photo Books” of images that shouldn’t be on camera roll. Yes, folders and subfolders of images, so this new “flatten everything” behavior is unexpected.
