# Filter by folder **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** library-management\ **Created:** [August 18, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-folder/804911 "2022-08-18T07:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlexDe1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/alexde1/32/191409_2.png) [@AlexDe1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AlexDe1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-folder/804911/1 "2022-08-18T07:08:54Z")
Could you develop the possibility of filtering by file in the search? This would then make it possible to create collections in relation to a file. This does not currently exist in Plex ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/b/7/7/b77b1bf66a86227cd3b4a61003ca70627d999f2f.png) ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-folder/804911/2 "2022-08-18T08:05:18Z")
There’s already an existing feature suggestion discussing this on a rather detailed level (e.g. filtering by folders or segments of the path). I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. > [@Feature Request: File Path filter // Automatic dynamic Full Pathname tags & associated Filter](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-file-path-filter-automatic-dynamic-full-pathname-tags-associated-filter/47053): > > We have other requests that are similar to this but not the same. What I would like is to have a class of user tags for all media files that would be dynamically and automatically created based on the full pathname of the media object and to add a filter option for selecting these dynamic tags in all the players. So every path name Text for a media object and it is the full path including folder and all nested sub folder names and file names, plex media server would break up into discrete wor… # Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate. ---
**Author:** ![AlexDe1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/alexde1/32/191409_2.png) [@AlexDe1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AlexDe1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-folder/804911/3 "2022-08-18T13:52:18Z")
Ok i vote for it. Can you close this ? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-folder/804911/4 "2022-08-18T15:05:51Z")
2022 clean-up: duplicate