It would be a nice feature for the Plex native desktop apps to detect when you are browsing on the same machine you are hosting the files on, then, to include the option to “open in explorer” (Windows) or “open in finder” (MacOS) in the media settings menus (The same ones for editing meta tags or optimizing the media) whenever possible. I find myself browsing Plex, but wanting to locate my files in Windows Explorer to further organize, and possibly update meta tags on the files themselves, and this would be a great way to do that.
I edited the web HTML for a custom screenshot, let me know what you think.
I like this idea. In fact if you do a “Get Info” on a piece of media you can see the path right there … that path could be clickable, but I like your idea even better.
That for sure needs to be clickable. Plex has outdone themselves on the web client. Really, so robust, but there are still many quality of life type things, small things, like the non-clickable links for instance, that I wish were improved on, maybe there is a technical limitation?
Keep in mind… users don’t necessarily have access to the file system of their Plex Media Server from the machine running that Plex client – e.g. if you’re running your PMS on a NAS but the Plex client on a different PC or even outside your home network.
