.plexignore broken?

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Yesterday I added some extras to my movie library. I only wanted to store these extras with the content but I don’t want them to be added to Plex or the movie library. It didn’t work as expected. What I did:

Consider the following directory/file struct:

/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Movie (2024) {imdb-tt1234567}.mkv
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/fanart.jpg
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/folder.jpg
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/movie.xml

/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Scenes/
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Scenes/.plexignore
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Scenes/Bla bla-scene.mp4

/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Trailers/
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Trailers/.plexignore
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Trailers/Bla bla-trailer.mp4

Both .plexignore files contain one of the following patterns matching the corresponding folder:

*scene*
or
*trailer*

After a Metadata refresh these extras have been added to the content.

What’s wrong with my approach?

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scene or trailer are for file names not directories

Try this:
Scenes/*
Trailers/*

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Please elaborate more. Please look here:

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201381883-special-keyword-file-folder-exclusion/

Quote from the link above:

“Patterns without the forward-slash (/) character (e.g. *.mkv) match filenames in the same directory as the .plexignore file, or anywhere in the tree if .plexignore is a root of the section.”

In my case .plexignore was in the same directory as the files containing the corresponding pattern:

/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Trailers/.plexignore
/mnt/disk1/Movies/Movie (2024)/Trailers/Bla bla-trailer.mp4

However, will try with .plexignore in the root of the section - whatever that is in my case (/mnt/disk*/Movies/.plexignore)

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The easier solution is to place the .plexigore in the Scenes directory and inside the file have *.mp4 and do the same for trailers.

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I started with the exact example shown at the end of the link above. This shows e.g. trailer within the .plexignore file. As this didn’t work for me, I tried different variations. My example should work but it does not.

Is exactly the same as “Moviename (1234) {imdb-1234567} [edition-Logo].mkv”. Should not add an edition according to the docs - but it does.

I will try my section root with the .plexignore file today because this would be the easiest solution. Hope that this one works.

Thanks for your time and idea.

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Does your Plexignore file have an extension?

When you look at the file is it named .plexignore.txt or is it named .plexignore …with no .txt?

If you have a .txt then plex won’t find the file. It needs to be just .plexignore Try that first. That might be why its not working.

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Another thing you can try is put the .plexignore file in the overall movie folder and inside the plexignore file you have the folder listed. so ```
*Scenes/ *
*Trailers/ *

And this way anything you put in this folder will be ignored.

Or you can create a folder called “extras” and put your scenes folder and trailer folder in there, as according to the tutorial plex ignores that folder name by default.

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No extension. It’s a Slackware server without desktop tools.

I gave up on this - couldn’t get it to work.

The .plexignore file:

root@Tower:/mnt/disk1/Filme# ls -la .plexignore
-rwxrw-rw- 1 nobody users 18 Feb 17 07:44 .plexignore*
root@Tower:/mnt/disk1/Filme# cat .plexignore
*scene*
*trailer*
root@Tower:/mnt/disk1/Filme#

/mnt/disk1/Filme/ is one of the directories of the library. So it’s one of the root folders:

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This is the directory of this movie:

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So, the trailer should be ignored, no?

After a metadata refresh the trailer, that should have been ignored, shows up. It’s the one on the left:

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This may sound silly but I wonder if the ignore file is case sensitive? Maybe add *Trailer * with a capitol T. to your ignore file? The file name has trailer as capitol, I don’t know if the ignore file reads the -trailer as one word. You may want to try -trailer in the ignore file also. or [-trailer.] that would be [dash trailer dot] . If plex is looking for a pattern maybe feed the ignore file with the -trailer.

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xtrailerx (don’t know how to get asterisk character here) should match “Bla Trailer-trailer.ext”. However I will try your suggestion. But as I wrote - I gave up on this.

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Thank you for answering appreciate it.

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