One Movie into two separates library (macOS)

[IMacosiris]

Hi guys I have a question
I have a movie with dual audio and I like to have the movie in a library but also show the same title in other library
For example

Library Name: Movie
Movie: Avengers (2012) ← This movie have dual audio

Library Name: Kids
Movie : Avengers (2012) ← this should be a reference of the other library (in this way I don’t have the movie duplicated (the files is not duplicated)
Is any way to get this ?
I use a macOS compute I try with a symbolic link but the movie is not scanned

Any ideas of how to achieve this ?
I have the last version of Plex Media Server

[tom80H]

The easiest way to achieve this is probably to split the media in three folders:

1. Movies (general)
2. Movies (Kids)
3. Movies (shared)

Then you can assign #1+3 to your regular library and #2+3 to your kids library.

Keep in mind that both records will be listed with their own metadata and should show up twice in your search results (if you got access to both libraries yourself).

An alternative approach will be to keep the movies in a single library but work with sharing labels to restrict the items visible to your kids.

[pshanew]

Another option would be to use hard links to create second file system entry pointing to the same file. Symbolic links generally will not work for this use case.

For example, if you had:
/Volumes/MediaDrive/Movies/Movie Name.mkv

And you had a second movie folder where you just wanted to duplicate some movies in a separate library:
/Volumes/MediaDrive/Movies2/

You could do something like:
ln "/Volumes/MediaDrive/Movies/Movie Name.mkv" "/Volumes/MediaDrive/Movies2/Movie Name.mkv"

I’d suggest @tom80H’s solution of using a single library with sharing labels (with a separate “Kids” managed user) though.

[IMacosiris]

Thanks a lot for your help !!!
I was try before with ln -s but without quotes and the link is made but doesn’t work.
Now with quotes is working , thanks thanks a lot !
Have a nice weekend
Br

[tom80H]

If you drag the source file / target folder into Terminal, the path will be added with spaces and special characters already escaped… in case you’re running in trouble with the quotes.