I have quite a few home movies taken with phones and video recorders over the years that include my children. I’d like to share these movies with my parents, but because of their limited technical knowledge I’d like to limit what they should be able to see to the videos that are relevant to them, such as movies tagged with the names of their granddaughters (my kids) or themselves.
Is there a way to accomplish this relatively easily?
I’ve made smart collections with the names of my kids and they appear to work great. However, it seems like I have to share all home videos, including most that have no relevance or interest to my parents, not just the relatively few that I really would like them to have access to. I fear they will get lost if too much of no relevance is available to them…
I was hoping for some suggestions on how I easily can share a few videos with my parents without sharing what they do not need access to. Do I really need to share every home movie with them?
The single item Access was a bit much since, although only a small part of my home movies, still are hundreds of videos I’d like them to have access to.
Now the restrictions were absolutely useful. I’ve been playing a bit with it now after you posted the suggestion. If you are familiar with this feature, can you confirm that I will need to add a Label, let’s say “Grandkids”, to both all the collections I’d like to give them access to AND every movie within?
Is it somehow possible to automatically label every file and collection that contains a name? For example, if my daughter named Susan is in the file name or collection, can these automatically be assigned a label Susan that I in turn can give access to via the restrictions?
That’s correct. You need to label all items you want them to see… the videos and if you want them to see your collections (e.g. holidays, vacations, birthday parties…).
There’s no means to automatically label items based on names etc. However you can use an advanced filter to apply your criteria, then multi-select all items (select the 1st item, scroll to the end of the list, hold Shift, then select the last item) and edit them all at once.
Thank you. I believe this has solved my issue here
I mistyped a label… Is it possible to delete it somehow? I believe I’ve removed it from all media and collections that was assigned it but it still appears as an option when choosing labels.
Now I’d like to share all my regular movies and TV shows with my parents (and other users).
Since I’ve now added restrictions to my parents that they can only watch home movies with specific labels, it appears as they are not able to view any feature films or TV shows at the moment.
Do I need to add a label to all my Movies and TV shows as well and add those to the restrictions of every user before they are able to see them?
A restriction for movies should not impact your shared tv-shows. That being said – the restriction for movies apply to both actual movie and other-video type libraries. So yes, if you have a restriction that only allows your parents to see labelled media, you’ll need to label it all. Alternatively you can revers your approach and apply a label to all media you don’t want them to see, adjusting your sharing restriction accordingly.
I understand. It would be easier to label what they should have access to than not.
Now lets say I add a label called “All Movies” and apply that to all movies and grant access to that label as well. What happens when I add a movie to my Plex server? If I forget to add the label to a movie it will never be available to other users.
Is there an easy way fix this issue? So that I can be sure all movies in the future get this label?
You can create some smart collection for yourself, filtering items added after a certain date that don’t have the label… there’s no automatic way to do it.
