Hi,
i have a question about the .plexignore file.
My path looks like this:
/home/Plex/Movies/A/Movie1
/home/Plex/Movies/A/Movie1\Sample
/home/Plex/Movies/A/Movie1\COVERS
i want to exclude Sample and COVERS from scan.
My .plexignore file is in /home/Plex/Movies/.plexignore
The content of .plexignore is:
Sample/*
COVERS/*
But i see in Plex Media Scanner.log the files will be added to database, and scan all folders again.
Nov 06, 2016 17:16:50.182 [0x7f661ea58800] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: /home/Plex/Movies/.plexignore
Nov 06, 2016 17:16:50.219 [0x7f661ea58800] DEBUG - Adding subdirectory for scanner: /home/Plex/Movies/A/Movie1/Sample
I haven’t used .plexignore much, but if I read the Help page correctly, if the .plexignore file is in /home/Plex/Movies, your settings will ignore:
/home/Plex/Movies/Sample/*
/home/Plex/Movies/COVERS/*
I think you need to make a copy of your .plexignore file in every
/home/Plex/Movies/A/Movie1
folder
Then i missunderstood the Help page.
If you add the “.plexignore” file to the root (top-level) folder in the content location, the ignore rules will apply to all sub-folders.
It makes no sense to place a file in every movie folder.
This line is what led me to my conclusion:
Patterns with '/'s (e.g. somedir/*) match directory and file patterns relative to the directory containing the .plexignore file.
Give it a try, then we’ll know.
