I am really enjoying Plex, wondering what took me so long to find this and set it up. I do have one question and maybe I’m totally missing it. Is it possible to hide/password protect a library? Lets say I have data that I don’t want to appear under library or have it password protected to keep things from prying eyes.
You can grant access to a library to a person but you can’t password protect it.
This has been a long standing feature request that will probably never happen because Plex doesn’t understand the need for it.
Something as simple as having a porn library where you want to have to enter a pass code on every entry to the library of after X minutes after finishing a movie is beyond grasp.
@cayars said:
Pornbeyond grasp.
funny
Funny but true.
There are of course many good reasons for password protecting a library but that is a long standing, easy to understand reason everyone should understand. You can obviously setup a library and only grant access to yourself but what happens if you are logged in as yourself on a Roku or other client and your 8 year old starts the session where you left off. Early Education and you got some explaining to do… 
For years and years this feature has been asked for to no avail.
Oh, really it’s a family product… You can see why the’d stay away from porn… anything else couple be handled with Libraries, Labels, etc.
@wesman said:
Oh, really it’s a family product… You can see why the’d stay away from porn… anything else couple be handled with Libraries, Labels, etc.
True, but at one time I had a Kid’s library, a standard Shared Library, a more liberal thinking library, a 3d Library and for some, access to a bit more risqué library. So everyone I shared with had to hunt and peck to find the different content across all of those libraries. (Believe it or not, Shrek is a PG movie and wasn’t in the Kid’s library as a result…)
It gets a lot easier to manage libraries by just having one library and maintain Sharing Labels and use the misnamed “Restrictions” labels to share things out. Passwording would make things so much easier, too. Assign a password to a movie/library/TV Show and you know that the person using it at least knows the password, so the misnamed “Restrictions” could actually be restrictive, instead of permissive. (Another example of Plex doing things backwards from the rest of the IT industry…)
This discussion went in a totally different direction I intended. Pron - um nope, although a great idea. I’m a photographer and shoot various different genres. These are images I don’t want everyone in my house to have access to. Not that anything bad would come of it, quite frankly it’s none of their business. Why can’t one just “hide” that library from the main screen, doesn’t need a password if it’s not visible… I have over 250,000 images, I like to be able to have them at a moments notice to show a perspective client etc… It’s great on an iPad, Laptop without having to carry a hard drive with me.
hehe, well, the discussion went in a direction you didn’t intend, but it’s the most easily to understand for most people…
They thing to remember is that opinions are like (well, we all know what they are like), we’d all like it to be perfect for us, but, its not our product, so, we deal with what they like.
Which honestly works fine. I recently reorganized to optimizing sharing.
