+1 from me too!
I have a few movies that are Blu-ray rips and have special feature clips in the same folder. I don’t want these to show up in my library but I also don’t want to delete them, so I’m kind of stuck.
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@vondrook4 said:
I have a few movies that are Blu-ray rips and have special feature clips in the same folder. I don’t want these to show up in my library but I also don’t want to delete them, so I’m kind of stuck.
Special features can be integrated, though. No need to exclude them.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/
It is not disabled, I have watched it delete files today. Which is really annoying.
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I know this is old, but why are you putting random unchecked opinions in here as answers to a technical question?
Does a HDD being in use lower its life Expectancy?
Yes.
Does this mean you shouldn’t use your HDD?
lol, what?
Torrenting doesn’t really won’t do much to your drive, and constant usage is better for it than periodic as it’s the starting up and the spinning down that takes there toll.
Not torrenting to save your HDD is like not driving to save your car.
I’ll leave this here to try and prevent misinformation.
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You obviously don’t do all that much torrenting if you think it doesn’t take a toll on your drive.
Today by accident I found files names starting with a dot (".") aren’t added to Plex when it scans for new files.
A file called photo.jpg will be added while a file called .photo.jpg isn’t and renaming the file with a leading dot will remove it from Plex.
I had some photos which I wanted to keep in my file directory but didn’t want to include or share in Plex and this works for me.
Yeah, this would be a nice feature to be implemented, especially with hose of us that use the same storage for multiple uses. For example, in my case, I have a drive filled with Audio Files: it holds my music, but since I also do Theatrical sound work, that also means that I store my Sound Effect files on the same drive. However, I don’t want these coming up in Shuffle when I randomize my music, and as they’re integrated into the file structure of the drive, I’d like to prevent having to go in and find all 28GB of SFX and having to move them someplace else. It’d be nice if you could have a feature of deleting from the drive as well as from the Plex interface.
So use cases can exist for this that hopefully would be easily solved by the removal from the Plex database, but wouldn’t necessitate major renames of huge batches of files, or having to completely re-arrange a drive to cater to Plex.
You don’t separate the two types on your drive in folders? Like a Music folder and a Sounds Effects folder?
So I’m guessing there’s really not a answer to this sort of conundrum, either?? I’m having a very similar issue and the annoying thing is that it is thrown into set of a tv series that I have in my tv shows section and it’s not even any metadata that would indicate why Plex would even put it in there b/c the file name clearly states the movies’ name. The only thing that I could think of is that the same actor that is in the tv series is also the star of the movie. But then I’m thinking how the hell would Plex dig that deep. Plus, it’s even had the nerve to not only be listed outside of that series listing as separate ‘episode’ (again, even though it’s a movie–already listed in the MOVIES section correctly, to boot); but then it’s thrown into the listing of the series’ episodes along w/ the legitimate episodes (which the season only had 8).
I had the thought to ‘delete’ it from the tv section, at first, but gave pause when the message cryptically state how it seems to allude to the fact that a deletion is not just ‘oh, we’ll simply remove listing of it’ but rather of ‘oh, we gonna remove it from your whole computer’ type of vibe. I mean, if I can’t delete it from one section w/o deleting ENTIRELY from my system, is there really not an option available to at least ‘hide’ it in the sections/areas I don’t want to see it in?
+1, I really need this feature too.
Just to be clear, are you saying that your movie files (and/or folders that contain movie files) are intermixed with your tv show files (and/or folders that contain tv show files)?
If that’s the case, that won’t work with Plex – Plex expects that Movies will be under one folder structure and that TV Shows will be under another, something like:
d:\Media\Videos\TV Shows
d:\Media\Videos\Movies
(where “d:\Media\Videos” could be named anything in your situation). At this point, you would at the “TV Shows” folder to a TV Shows Library and the Movies folder to a Movies Library in Plex.
If something else is going on, then you will need to post the folder/filename of the movie
However, if you cannot change the filename/place because of something like this:
Then again, as posted near the top of this thread, you do NOT want to put your torrent folders directly into Plex but rather, copy the completed files into the required Plex folder structure. Keep your torrenting stuff separate from Plex Library folders because Plex relies heavily on tis folder/filenaming structure.
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