I am starting to compile a lot of educational content. I keep the content on the same drive as my movies. Is there a way for me to hide the folder “Educational” from the movies library while showing it for the new library “Educational” I created? I’ve tried .plexignore but to my knowledge it’s totally hide or show and doesn’t have library filtering. I do understand that I could move the content to a higher folder but I was trying to avoid that. All of the movies are already in the root of the drive.
I would introduce a more refined folder structure:
x:\movies -> movies library
x:\educational -> other library
Easiest solution imho.
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^^^ what @Coxeroni said.
Plus, it is not recommended to put media directly into the root folder. Always keep them in a subfolder.
I might do that, thanks.
My thinking in doing so, was that everything would have shorter path names. I’m curious why it’s not recommended to put media directly into the root folder?
You are free to use one-letter folder names. 
There are several reasons:
A root folder often has undesirable files and folders in it, which should be not scanned by Plex. (Trashcan etc.)
In a root folder somehow it doesn’t work to determine the time stamp when this folder has been changed.
Plex uses this to determine whether it needs to scan a folder (or can skip scanning it). You will appreciate this, once your collection has reached a certain size. 
Why is plexignore not working?
.plexignore in “X:\movies” with content.
Educational/*
Libary Movies set path to “X:\movies”.
Library Educational set to “X:\movies\Educational”
the generated plexignore will not be seen by the Educational library - if there are still issues try disabled partial scanning option
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