Place film extras in different directory to film itself?

Plex Media Server
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Can I keep the film files here:

D:\Films\Film1.mkv
D:\Films\Film2.mkv
D:\Films\Film3.mkv

But add extra features into:

D:\Films\Film1<list of extras>
D:\Films\Film2<list of extras>
D:\Films\Film3<list of extras>

This is because I only have extra features for a handful of films and I like to be neat, so I’d rather not have some films in folders (the ones with extras) and the rest in the root of D:\Films

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Can you give a specific example of what you have in mind?
I’m not sure I understand what your example is supposed to show :wink:

According to the related support article, Plex requires local extras to be placed inside a movie folder, alongside the main file. I believe the only exception from that rule are local media assets such as posters.

3

Recommended is one subfolder per movie in general.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/

4

I don’t want to place a film in a folder along with the extra features, so I’ll just leave the extra features for now.

5

To be neat, you could put every movie into its own folder, whether it has extras or not.
For those with extras, the extras can be in sub-folders of the movie’s folder, rather than alongside it:

Movies
   Movie
      Featurettes
         Featurette no. 1
         Featurette no. 2
      Behind the Scenes
         Behind Scenes no. 1

This screenshot is from my Movies folder. I have no extras for “A Midsummer Nights Dream.” You can see the extras for “Angels & Demons”:

image

6

I have hundreds of films. Not only would that take a long time, I only want to keep extras for a handful of them, so it doesn’t really work for me.

Not to worry :blush: Thank you both for your help.

7

Unfortunately there may come a time when have all of the movies in the same folder will start to actually cause you problems.

One of those problems is… Whenever you add another movie, plex will notice that something has changed in the one and only folder you have, and because of that, when you then scroll through the movies either in an app or in the web app, you will notice each movie will behave a little strange, as if it was THAT movie that has changed, and not the actual new movie you have just added.

It’s a little hard to explain, however I’m afraid the one thing that literally everyone on here will tell you, is that it is bad practice to keep all of the movies in the same folder, rather than divide them up into their own subfolders.

I started exactly as you did, with all of my movies in the same folder, and it wasn’t long before I was running into all sorts of problems.

And because of this, you simply will not be able to use the Extras features, and before you know it, there will be other features that you will also not be able to use, and that will probably be the time when you will eventually have to bite the bullet and get it done.

Anyways… Good luck with it… :+1:

8

Take a look at Filebot. It exists to make this organizational task much less painful.

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