Folders or NOT Folders that is the question?

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Guys I was wondering can you help me. I am about to take purchase of a new Intel Nuc Barebones computer with 8Gb of Ddram and a 250Gb Samsung SSD which I am going to set up as my Plex Server. I have a Synology 416 Play NAS with all my media files on it. What I was wanted to know from yourselves is at the moment I have my Movies stored on the Nas like this with folders and then with the Movies inside the folders

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but I was wondering would it be better for Plex if I had the Movies outside the folders (as shown in the example of the X Folder:-

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PMS will work both ways. (with or without).

however

If you wish to add extras or trailers or other Local Media Assets , you must use the folder.
Use of the folder keeps everything found in that folder associated with the movie.

Without the folder, there would be no way of knowing which item goes with which movie.

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I used to have without the folders and only made folders when I wanted to add extras and such. About 18 months ago, I moved to all folders. It makes it SOOO much more organized. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Thanks guys. The consenus is to have Folders and I agree with that opinion but I just wanted to see if it makes a difference to Plex and it appears it doesnā€™t. So I will continue to put movies into their own Folders

Thanks for your help

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I donā€™t currently have my movies in folders (I do for TV series).

Is there a way to automate taking a movie directory containing a large number of movies, and creating and moving them all into sub-folders with the same name as the movie.

Given the number of movies in question, I certainly wouldnā€™t want to do this manually!

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There are a few apps to help you out. My recommendation would be Radarr/Sonarr to organize your content. A good alternative is Filebot but thatā€™s no longer free.

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You could do that fairly easily with pretty much any scripting language.

For example in powershell it would be something like

$Movies = get-childitem \\path\to\movies
foreach ($Movie in $Movies){

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path ā€˜\\path\to\moviesā€™ -Name ā€œ$($Movie.basename)ā€ -verbose
move-item $Movie.fullname ā€œ\\path\to\movies$($Movie.basename)ā€ -verbose

}

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I had to look back a ways to find my original question on how to convert everything to folders. Take a read through this set of posts. I know the script here worked for me.

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