Plex stopped respecting .plexignore

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Thanks!

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I think in my case, I thought .plexignore functioned like Androidā€™s .nomedia. I see now that it functions more like .gitignore, which in retrospect makes more sense.

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Thank you!!

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I also just ran into this problem. Using Lightroom to edit/manage my photoā€™s makes having jpgā€™s and cr2ā€™s right next to each other the only practical solution. Was hoping to use .plexignore in my photos root to filter out all cr2ā€™s and thats currently not working.

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Hi @ChuckPa, any update on this topic from your end? :slight_smile:

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I created a feature request asking to get this fixed.

Moderator OttoKerner moved the feature request into ā€œgeneral discussionsā€, then team member MovieFan.Plex closed it with the comments that I should just bump the old thread.

Soā€¦ bump.

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I updated the Server it Version 1.15.6.1079

Plex decided once again that it doesnā€™t care about the .plexignore directives. Specifically for TV Series. .plexignore is in the root of the tv shows and is in the format Show.Name*/*

What is up with that?

There is still no way to remove them of course. What a great update.

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Dear @ChuckPa or @anon18523487 , it would really be great if you could share an update with us!

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@ChuckPa,

Can you suggest whether this problem move to itā€™s own thread/story?

I experience the issue noted within this thread for the Photo scanner not honoring the .plexignore. My setup is following:

Running Server 1.15.8.1163 on Windows 10.

Using the photo library feature, I have nested directories, but within each individual directory, I place a .plexignore with the same contents of simply:
*.png

This from the suggestion that the root .plexignore file may not honor the filters in nested directories, however it has no impact on leaving my pngā€™s out of the Library.

My standard directory structure is Base>Year>Month, and each month folder contains all the files from my iPhone, being primarily .mov, .mp4, .jpg, .heic, and .png.

The .pngā€™s are screenshots, and I do not want to display them via Plex, and really donā€™t want to be setting something special up to move them as I would have to do this on a repeated/ongoing basis as these directories are dynamically updated via OneDrive anytime I take a video/photo/screenshot. This is what I believe the intent is for .plexignore, and as I am reading, the photo scanner implementation may just have a big in leveraging this currently.

Thanks

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This topic is already in itā€™s own thread with OS-specific tags having been removed.

I wish I could add to what is known at this point but Iā€™ve discovered nothing beyond what has been and already submitted to Engineering.

I will bring this up in tomorrowā€™s staff meeting to see if we can get some additional information.

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Thank you!

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Any luck with the staff meeting?

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bump!

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bump.

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I have the same issue on my side:
this is my .plexignore file located in /volume1/Backup/Foto/Libreria Foto.photoslibrary/

# Ignore raw files
*.cr2
*.arw
*.ARW

# Ignore some photo folders
1999/*
2003/*
2004/*
2005/*
Albums/*
Apple*TV*Photo*Cache/*
Attachments/*
Before*Restore/*
Caches/*
database/*
iPod*Photo*Cache/*
Masks/*
Plugins/*
private/*
resources/*
SlideshowAssets/*
Originals/*

but files like
/volume1/Backup/Foto/Libreria Foto.photoslibrary/Masters/2019/06/23/20190623-163252/_DSC5104.ARW
are listed in photo library.

Plex Media Server v1.16.1.1273-4b6101f87 - Synology DS916+ x86_64 - build: linux-x86_64 synology - GMT 02:00
Linux version: DSM 6.2.2.24922-0, language: en-US
Processor       Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU  N3710  @ 1.60GHz
/var/packages/Plex Media Server/target/Plex Media Server
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For what it is worth, this has happened a couple of times since my original post. Files that are ignored reappear in my library. Because Plex has no function to remove a record from the database, I have to offline my storage, use Plex to delete, and then bring back the storage and everything is fine. Annoying, but fine.

Also, if Plex devs are reading this, please consider updating the plexignore syntax to cover spaces and other special characters, or have Plex respect escaped charactersā€¦

It would also be great, and solve my recurring problem, if the .plexignore would drop matching records in Plex as they appear in the library - but I guess that is a pipe dream.

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What seems to have worked for me is simply remove permission for the plex user to read certain folders in the photos folder. For instance, we have a camera phone folder where all photos taken using our mobiles are uploaded to automatically (essentially a dumping ground). Periodically I sort through them and cull/move into appropriate folders.
I donā€™t want Plex to add photos from the camera phone photos folder as they contain a lot of rubbish. As plexignore was not being respected, I simply removed permission for ā€œPlex userā€ on the server to read or write to that folder. It seems to have solved the problem as Plex can no longer see the contents of that folder.
This is a Synology server though. Iā€™m not sure if this works for Windows/other platforms.

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Sad that such a trivial error still exists.
Anyway, it concerns me, too.

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@ChuckPa Any update on this?

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None.

When addressed, Iā€™m sure it will be listed in the Release Notes.