I just restructured my entire library as I said and even if it don’t seems to have issues on the movies library, I had quite a few in the TV Shows one, so I want to exaplain them to others that reading this post are going to restructure their library.
Plex have some troubles to recognize different TV shows in sub-folder, apparentely it wants to read the TV shows directly in the folder you add.
So if you have a structure like this:
TV Shows
1080p/....
4K/....
and you add the main folder “Tv Shows” to the library, Plex is gonna confusing the content and mixing together different TV shows.
You still need to add the folders individually to the library, then you can also make other libraries with the single folder as I did (for example to share only a part of your contents, or maybe because you still want to have the library with some specific content in it as I do).
That would work as long as the main library is directed at the root Movies folder. Otherwise you’ll end up with the same duplication issue with no real way to alleviate it without some other workaround.
If the “main” library refers to both the 4k and 1080p folders, it should result in a similar user experience as pointing to a “parent” folder … but scanning should be more reliable. Slightly so for movies, but especially for TV.
Or, maybe I’m missing some subtlety about what’s different. It should behave the same way.
Yeah that’s what I was saying. In reality, you don’t need to nest folders, since you can add them every single one and do as many libraries as your folders. But in the end, I find my folders more organized like this and that’s ok.
By the way now I have only the folder with all contents inside pinned, and the others unpinned.
Problem solved (a bit of workaround but it’s ok I guess)
