.plexignore problem

General Discussions
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I think there may be a problem with .plexignore. In most of my photo subfolders, I have hidden folders called [Originals] with the unedited versions that I want to exclude.

My .plexignore file is in the root (top-level) folder and contains the line:
[Originals]/*

However, Plex DOES NOT exclude files from these folders.

I know my .plexignore file is being recognized and used because Plex is excluding other files and subfolder including these:
*.bmp
Originals/*

I think the problem may be with the brackets used “”. I have seen other support posts with people with similar problems using [subfolders] as well as with subfolders with russian characters (non-ASCII) etc. Unfortunately, the square brackets are used with my photo editing program, ACDSee, and I don’t think that I can change them.

Can you please verify this?

Edited by sa2000 replacing # with * and putting the text within code markdown characters

2

Yes, further testing shows that it is a bug. If I rename the folders to Originals instead of [Originals], everything works as expected. How do we report a bug?

3

This has already been reported as an issue. I will add a note to that issue and add link to your forum topic

5

Thanks @trumpy81

@bmorgy - please let us know if that gets round the problem

PS
#recycle should be skipped without need for entry in .plexignore

6

@sa2000 - Yes @trump81’s suggestion works. Thank you for that. However, I think that this will also exclude any photos with “Originals” in the filename. Fortunately, this doesn’t impact me, but I hope that Plex continues to fix this bug in .plexignore so that it works as documented.

8

@bmorgy so did you have the following syntax to get round the problem to exclude folder names in square brackets

*[Originals]/*

9

@sa2000, no, I used the following lines:

*Originals*
Originals/*
[Originals]/*

Probably overkill, but it works. I will try to narrow it down to *[Originals]/* tonight.