How to ignore TV directories with .plexignore?

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.40.0.7998

Hello,

I reorganized all of my TV shows. They’re all within individual folders and every show folder is named like this:

\showname1 (year) {tvdb-nnnnn1}
\showname2 (year) {tvdb-nnnnn2}
\showname3 (year) {tvdb-nnnnn3}
etc.

There are many shows in the same root folder. Most of them still need work naming the seasons and specials. So, I don’t want Plex scanner to see them all. Only some are ready. Others I want Plex to scan as I make them ready. I’d prefer to keep them in place, rather than use the Plex dance. I tested putting a .plexignore file containing a single asterisk in each folder, but that didn’t work. I’m thinking of putting a .plexignore file in the root that would list all of the folders, but I’m a) not sure if it would work, and b) unsure of the syntax. I certainly wouldn’t mind a better idea, as well.

So… Could I just put a directory list in the .plexignore file? Like this (using the above example)? I’d be fine with it. Then I could simple comment or delete lines as finish editing the TV show data.

\showname1 (year) {tvdb-nnnnn1}
\showname2 (year) {tvdb-nnnnn2}
\showname3 (year) {tvdb-nnnnn3}

(I know how to create a folder list: “dir /ad /b > list.txt”)

There are too many folders to make a test feasible. I’d also like to avoid making the server work too hard.

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Never mind. I was able to answer my own question. My first attempt failed because I didn’t have asterisks before and after the folder name. Adding them worked. The necessity for wild cards is not obvious to me.

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A simpler solution could be to create a staging folder outside your library folder where you prepare your media. Once you’re set you can move it to your target folder and let Plex add it to your library.

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Thanks. I know. The problem is there are other programs locking the folders and files in place. So, it isn’t really a simpler solution.

Enclosing the folder names with asterisks did it. I like the control of having a file to edit.

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