I’m sorry if this has already been discussed, but in case it’s not, can we have the same feature like in Android, when you create a “.nomedia” file under a path, the files in the same level and below will be skipped during scanning?
This would be useful, say, if I want the camera raw files under the “raw” folder to not be included in the timeline without having to remove the raw files out.
found the answer, “.plexignore”
pls ignore my op
I revived this thread as it shows up in searches, but the provided link is 404 now. Updated link fpr .plexignore (.nomedia) appears below:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201381883-special-keyword-file-folder-exclusion/
Here is a template file I created for use with linux:
### PLEXIGNORE .plexignore similar to .nomedia but requires manual edit
# https://support.plex.tv/articles/201381883-special-keyword-file-folder-exclusion/
# https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/
#When scanning in new content for your libraries, you can tell the scanner to ignore files or patterns by adding
# a .plexignore file #to any folder in your library’s content location. “.plexignore” is the exact name of the file to use; nothing more and nothing less #(e.g. it starts with a period
# and does not have a separate “file extension”).
#If you add the “.plexignore” file to the root (top-level) folder in the content location, the ignore rules will apply to all #sub-folders.
# Ignore all files with "trailer" in the name
#*trailer*
# Ignore files with the extension ".cr2"
#*.cr2
# Ignore directories called "Modified"
#*Modified/*
# Ignore all ".tif" files in the "thumbnails" subdirectory
#*thumbnails/*.tif
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (.plexignore)
