I had a lot of extras subfolders under each movie folder, I migrated from Kodi 1 year ago. I noticed that Plex didn’t pick those up, so I found the guide for extras renaming and I renamed all those subfolders to -other. Rescan picked them up, but it put each of them in the movie library view, and I don’t want that.
I’d like them to be showed under the movie preview screen, where all the info about the movie is shown. I tried disabling “local trailers” in the extras settings, but it didn’t do what I wanted.
I searched the forum, but I found a lot of requests for “local extras not being shown”, while I have the opposite problem.
Update: I’m seeing duplicates since I created the -other subfolders. The scanner is indexing those subfolders like they contained movies, not extras. So what I’m seeing in the library view are what Plex thinks are movies, not extra content.
How do I tell the scanner to not scan subfolders of a movie folder?
These are the movie folders I setup in the library:
And this is an example of duplicates for the movie Bumblebee, that has a subfolder named -other:
The release year belongs into round parentheses.
Square brackets do hide their content from the Plex scanner. The year is a valuable element for matching a movie, so that is not something you want to hide. /storage/NAS/shared/media/video/movies/Bumblebee (2018) [Travis Knight]
The folder name for the “Other” extras category doesn’t start with a dash. The dash is only used if you place the extras into the same folder like the main movie.
Remove all the extraneous uglyness from the file names of the extras. Particularly don’t start their file name with the title of the main movie.
The release year in brackets has never been a problem, Plex scanner always identified the movie correctly, the question was not related to the movie identification, which works perfectly.
This was the issue, I read the local extra naming guide too quickly, my fault, and thanks for letting me know.
I never touch the filenames for several reasons, I always wanted the sw I use (Kodi, Plex, etc.) to work at the directory level to identify movies. And it has always worked ok.
I just completed the rename of -other subfolders to Other and did a library rescan: everything perfect now: I see all the movies, no duplicates, and local extras are visible in the movie preview page. Case closed.
