I am the admin user for my Plex home, but I have a library that I don’t want to see when I login to plex. Is there anyway to hide a library even if I’m the admin?
No. You are the admin, Nothing is hidden from you.
If you don’t want to see particular libraries, I suggest you create a Plex Home user account for yourself to separate Admin from User.
This way, the user account will have only what the admin gives it
That’a a shame. I should have control over what Libraries I see. Especially since I lose my Plex Pass if I create a fake second account.
@lbutlr said:
That’a a shame. I should have control over what Libraries I see. Especially since I lose my Plex Pass if I create a fake second account.
You don’t lose your PlexPass with a second home account. It transfers as long as the server has PlexPass.
If you, as admin, were able to hide things from yourself, how would you retrieve / view them?
This is why you create a Home user account. You use this for viewing. The Plex Pass attaches to your server, not the user. As long as the server is signed into your Plex Pass, all users of your server have access to your Plex Pass features
@ChuckPA said:
If you, as admin, were able to hide things from yourself, how would you retrieve / view them?
The same way I hid them, though the User menu on the Server Webface. Trivial.
This is why you create a Home user account. You use this for viewing. The Plex Pass attaches to your server, not the user. As long as the server is signed into your Plex Pass, all users of your server have access to your Plex Pass features
And lose all my watched information.
Thanks for the answer, I just want to add that another reason someone might want to hide libraries from the admin is to declutter the list when those libraries are temporarily not needed. For example, I have a Christmas Music library which is necessary because I don’t want Christmas music randomly playing when I play my normal music library. However, I have also spent time creating playlists based on the Christmas Music library. So I don’t want to delete the library because that would destroy the playlists. Moving it to the end is fine (using a ‘_’ character at the beginning), but it is still necessary to scroll past this library in order to reach the News channel. It also simply adds clutter. Not a big deal, but worth considering. My home is not currently a multi user environment so I don’t want to go that route just for this reason.
I use a manage user for not necessary to “hide” a library, but to limit(simplify) my experience to just two libraries, movies/shows. It’s easy to find what I am looking for. No need to go from one library to another.
