In desperate need of help organizing my family videos

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I have a collection of family videos in a library that I call Our Videos. The videos in this library are organized according to the following hierarchy: a set of top level folders, one for each year, from 2003 till now. Each of these folders can contain up to 12 folders, one for each month of the year. Inside of these folders are the video files. These files may, or may not, have unique names, in the sense that in folders, say, January for 2018, and September for 2010, I might have video files with exactly the same name.

I would like for my Plex clients (I use Android, Firestick and Linux clients) to allow me to access those videos exactly as I am describing above. Is this at all possible? If not, what is the recommended way for organizing such a library, so that it is easy to navigate with a Plex client? The essential search parameters are year and month; the name of the file is not all that important. Additionally, for obvious reasons, I’d looking for a solution that is implemented in the Plex server, and that all Plex clients would pick up without any special configuration or actions in those clients. Is this possible, or will the clients have to be configured individually?

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Have you added the folder to Plex yet? That should be scanned automatically.

On the fire stick you can view by folder.
The android app should show you the category with things sorted like you want already.

Did you create a category for “our videos”?

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Thanks for your reply. The answer to your questions is “yes”. Shortly after asking this question, I was able to figure out how to achieve what I want in my Android client. It is just not intuitive at all, but it is there.

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