I would like to have the ability to set series as completed so they will not be scanned for updated files when updating the library. I have several series of which i have all the episodes (series have stopped airing), noting will change in those folders so Plex can completely ignore them when updati…

plus mention in the series view somehow that it is completed/ended…

@ADvorsky said: plus mention in the series view somehow that it is completed/ended… Exactly, thats what i meant. I think this will speed up the updating process.

The update process first scans the folder to see if it has changed. If the series is done and you are not adding any new files, this scan should only take a split second. If you really want to prevent any future scans you can create a .plexignore file to ignore that folder completely from now on. …

using .plexignore will not really cover it, at least not for my part. it is a workaround to reach parts of the goal, modifying a text file for each library/folder and adding all the series/collections/movies manually is not really usable in the long run. and of course there is no way to see it in …

The PlexIgnore was just an idea, but I do not see the need to do what you want. If you do not modify your folder, scanning them is trivial. When there is nothing new, Plex can scan my collection of ~90 shows in 7 seconds. Having it skip any finished show would save 4 to 5 seconds. Unless you hav…

Maybe PlexIgnore would help, but a GUI would be nice. When Plex scans my shows, it sometimes takes several minutes to scan series which have ended years ago and are completed (I think this is because the Plex server is on a PC and all the shows are on my NAS). It seems pointless to me to keep scanni…

@stefspakman said: When Plex scans my shows, it sometimes takes several minutes to scan series which have ended years ago and are completed (I think this is because the Plex server is on a PC and all the shows are on my NAS). That shouldn’t be the case. As long as the folder is not being modifie…

@MovieFan.Plex It doesn’t always take that much time, but sometimes it seems to take a lot of time to scan a folder where there are no new episodes. Next time I see this I will look at the update date, maybe Sickrage is changing stuff. It is not a super urgent feature for me, but making a GUI for …

Feature Request ability to deselect completed finished series to not update

Feature Suggestions

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(TV-Shows) Exclude completed Seasons/Shows from Scan Feature Suggestions	2	131	June 10, 2021
Request: Exclude from scan option on TV series. Feature Suggestions	26	117	June 10, 2021
Feature Request: Skip Shows/Album folders marked complete during Library Updates General Discussions	1	74	January 7, 2020
Suggestion: Stop scanning "ended" TV shows Metadata & Adding Files library-management	26	417	October 4, 2021
Ignore during Library Scan Feature Suggestions library-management	4	93	March 13, 2024

Feature Request ability to deselect completed finished series to not update

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