Hi All, I’ve been through the settings and various different forum searches but I seem to have not found anything in this direction. I was wondering whether it would be possible to have a “selective” library auto-update feature, where I can select which library needs to be part of the auto-update …

You could do command line script to update the section you want: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201242707-Plex-Media-Scanner-via-Command-Line

If you have automated the process using scripts, you can use the command line functionality of the plex media scanner in the script to accomplish this. Below is the information about calling the scanner via command line: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201242707-Plex-Media-Scanner-via-Com…

No I know about that - but that would require that I disable auto-refresh of all libraries, when I only want to disable specific libraries :slight_smile:

I would like to be able to exclude libraries from the auto-update as well. I have a very large music library, which takes a very long time to update. Since all of my media is on an NAS server, I have to use the option to update my library every X minutes instead of allowing it to update when it sees…

I would love to be able to select the libraries I have set to auto-update. If this could be a feature I would be very happy because my music library takes hours to update even though I rarely add anything to it, so I end up having to manually update TV Shows multiple times per each evening. I real…

Selective Library Update

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