I understand that for various different reasons Plex may skip some files and/or directories during the scanning process. Is there a way to get or generate a summary of these skipped files/directories so that I can be proactive about finding and fixing any naming or other issues causing these to be skipped? For larger media libraries it’s impractical to browse the Plex library manually to discover any skipped files.
Server Version#: 1.18.1.1973
My question is NOT about WHY certain files have been skipped which is what your linked article addresses.
My question is about gathering a summary of WHICH files have been skipped because of those reasons.
There is no such report, except maybe in the logs, but unfortunately not in a concise, well readable manner.
The linked article has a link in turn with a list of all the “reserved” words.
I also wrote up this post once, maybe it can shed some additional light on the issue and what file names to avoid: How to find the discrepancy between number of files on disk and the number of movies in the Plex movie library
To add to Otto,
Simply put, Plex only looks for files which could be media.
Extensions such as .html, .txt, .log,.zip,etc cannot possibly be media files.
Plex will silently ignore them. It doesn’t keep track of or report what it doesn’t care about.
Certain entries (e.g. @eaDir, etc) are deliberately ignored as such metadata directories never contain viable media.
Yes I’m only concerned with media files that have been skipped.
It would certainly be useful if Plex provided some type of post scan report or log file that lists the files (valid media files, that is) it has chosen to skip and the reason for doing so. Is this kind of functionality at all planned to be included in a future release?
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.
