Removing items after ignoring them with .plexignore?

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Hello,

I’ve recently had to move some files around due to space limitations on some of my external HDDs.
Because of this, a folder with unrelated media files are now in a folder being watched by Plex.
I’ve read you can ignore certain files and folders by using a .plexignore file.

Here is the gist of this drive:

E:\Movies (M-Z)

  • _Downloads ← this folder should be ignored
  • MNO
  • PQR
  • STU
  • VWX
  • YZ

I should have really made a seperate “Movies (M-Z)” folder on there, but I don’t really want to change this and resync all of my media, so I created a .plexignore file (I’m sure it has no file extension) on the root of this drive, with the following content:

Ignore following directories

_Downloads/*

This should ignore everything in that unwanted folder, but the problem is I had already synced my Plex before noticing the unwanted files inside that folder had been added. Syncing again after adding the .plexignore file did not remove the unwanted files from my movies library. I also don’t find a way to manually remove these items from my library, otherwise I would’ve just gone that route.

So, is this a bug or does syncing just not remove previously added files that were matching .plexignore rules?
How would I go about removing these items from my library with as little hassle as possible?

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Not sure if/how I can edit my initial post, but the ‘Ignore following directories’ has a ‘#’ in front of it to indicate a comment line, I’m sure the syntax of the file is correct.
The ‘#’ sign was apparently also markup on this forum, which is why it got displayed like that…

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I’m also having this same issue with multiple folders. Any luck resolving this?