Hello everyone, I have an external hard drive with my movies organized in folders for each director. In each folder I have several movies from this director. As I would like to keep this structure for my HD, I was thinking to add each folder to my media movies library, but they are quite a lot. May…

[image] xoan: Could it cause some troubles to have so many media folders in a library? There have been reports in the past which indicate that there might be a practical limit around 30 folder paths. (It also appears that the overall speed of your server machine may play a role as well.) …

[image] OttoKerner: I think the filter for “Director” in Plex will serve you much better than this arbitrary folder structure by director. This is a typical example of an organization which is achieved much more efficiently by using metadata than actual file sorting. Thank you. Yes I know an…

[image] xoan: but this structure organisation has been done before using plex and it took me a lot of time There is software which can help you to change it semi-automatically. Filebot would be one of these apps.

How many folder can I add to my library?

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OttoKerner January 8, 2024, 3:16pm 5

There is software which can help you to change it semi-automatically.

Filebot would be one of these apps.

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How many folder can I add to my library?

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