Server Version#: newest on Ubuntu Server
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Hello all!
If I have activated the folder view in Plex and select the first and last file in the folder with shift and click in order to select the entire folder content, this no longer works. Until a few months ago, this was still possible to mark the contents of an entire folder as unseen.
In principle, the shift + click function works, but only up to a number of ~200 files. But my folders have 500 to 1000 files.
The behaviour is the same with Firefox, Edge or the Plex Player.
There’s no bug — at least that’s what I’ve learned.
You can still use your approach. The only caveat is you cannot just jump to the end of the list but you need to scroll down so Plex can actually load/display the items in between.
I guess that’s the price of fast scrolling through large libraries (or folders).
I have already tried it in all the ways I could think of. Even with slow scrolling. It stops at about ~200 files. I can’t select more than that.
Have you tried it yourself?
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And even if it were possible as you describe, it would be very inconvenient.
Why isn’t there simply a button: “mark all”?
Tested w/ 2k+ audio tracks and 3.7k+ episodes. There’s no difference in how Plex Web is handling this for different display modes (by folder, movie, artist, album, track, show, season, episode).
I don’t have my Plex here at the moment, but I’ll try it again this evening. It can’t be that it works for you and not for me.
What exactly is your procedure?
Do you select the first file with shift + click, scroll a bit (how many files?) select again with shift + click, scroll further…?
scroll down Page by page, waiting for all posters to show
at the end of the list, hold Shift and select the end of the selection
There’s no harm in holding Shift along the way or to occasionally verify you’re still good (Plex Web will highlight all items in scope of the multiselection while you hold shift and hover over the posters)
Following Tom’s procedure, I can recreate his result, but I can also recreate matradix’s result by scrolling a little too fast, or by jumping to the end.
I can’t agree with Tom’s notion that this isn’t a bug. The “caveat” of not being able to jump to the end of the list is not intuitive, and is not a reasonable requirement for this feature to work properly. Using Tom’s method, if you speed up just enough to “miss” a page, you’re screwed, unless you catch it and page back up to load the missed page, then continue scrolling down. It took me a minute to page through 3900 tracks in order to do this. A better solution is needed.
Here’s an observation: After going through the process of slowly scrolling through the list so the feature will work, if you de-select everything and start again, you can jump to the end of the list, or hold the ‘Page Down’ key to quickly scroll to the bottom, and Shift+click works. If you leave the library and come back, you’re back to square one. So the list is apparently cached as long as you remain in the library. This proves that a solution is at least possible.
Yes Tom, if I scroll down slowly it actually works for me too.
I can also reproduce Beckfield’s observation with me. So the list is loaded when scrolling down slowly.
Why is not everything loaded immediately in the background when entering the library / folder?
Since it worked with the old plex web also with jump, I see it also so that this is a bug, or at least not programmed to end.
This function should again be as intuitive and easy, fast to use as before.
Two solutions for this are now already here in the thread.
Create a new button: “mark all”
or
When entering the library / folder everything immediately load in the background.
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I don’t necessarily disagree… I take it that loading the full library (even in background) will have a toll towards performance that’ll put users with huge libraries on the edge. Hence my remark about this being a caveat
