# Moving watched files to a different folder/library **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** samsung-tizen\ **Created:** [February 10, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-watched-files-to-a-different-folder-library/905145 "2025-02-10T15:18:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CedarD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@CedarD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CedarD)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-watched-files-to-a-different-folder-library/905145/1 "2025-02-10T15:18:27Z")
I know there was a topic a long while back by someone who wanted to do the same-ish thing I would like to suggest as a feature or would like to know if there is a script to do the following. Basically, I would like to be able to set up rules to do the following: 1. Automatically move watched files to a new location based on the library and original folder and drive. (i.e. movies library originally has files in F:\movies\ and I want it to move watched files to F:\movies\_watched. If the files are on G:\movies\ then I want it to move those particular files to G:\movies\_watched. (I have libraries that span multiple drives.) Then the entries in the movies library should be moved to watched\_movies.) 2. Maintain metadata (i.e. Episode watched, etc.) and any other data library scans creates (i.e. Intro and credits data.) after moving the file and library so it does not require rescanning by the server. I know I technically can sort files by watched/unwatched, but if I recall correctly, the last time I tried that it didn’t work correctly on my TV and I also don’t think it worked on the recommended tab. Additionally, having the ability to have multiple libraries based on watched/unwatched would be much more convenient. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-watched-files-to-a-different-folder-library/905145/2 "2025-02-10T16:05:46Z")
> [@CedarD](#): > > I know I technically can sort files by watched/unwatched, but if I recall correctly, the last time I tried that it didn’t work correctly on my TV and I also don’t think it worked on the recommended tab. Additionally, having the ability to have multiple libraries based on watched/unwatched would be much more convenient. Filtering works fine. If you want some modified recommendations / Home Screen, you can create a smart collection (e.g. recently added + unwatched), and publish that. # As for the feature… there’s an existing feature suggestion where you can comment/vote. > [@Move Watched Content to Archive](https://forums.plex.tv/t/move-watched-content-to-archive/85027): > > Hi Boys and girls, as the title suggests, i would like an automated way to move my watched tv shows to a different disk, this is because i am running out of space on my tv shows disk, however i have lots of spare ones that i would like to archive watched shows to. I started to write a powershell script to achieve this but my skills very quickly ran out. I have the very latest PHT running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard box. Any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![CedarD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@CedarD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CedarD)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-watched-files-to-a-different-folder-library/905145/3 "2025-02-10T16:33:34Z")
Thanks for the link to the suggestion. I’ll go ahead and vote on that. I haven’t tried filtering in a long while. Just recall that it didn’t seem to work when I tried it last. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-watched-files-to-a-different-folder-library/905145/4 "2025-02-10T16:37:13Z")
> [@CedarD](#): > > Just recall that it didn’t seem to work when I tried it last. Give it a try and share if you’re having issues. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/moving-watched-files-to-a-different-folder-library/905145/5 "2025-02-24T22:43:35Z")
2025 clean-up: implemented (filtering), duplicate (move to archive)