I use Plex on a My Cloud Home server and I’ve put all my movies in the “home movies” folder because it gives me better control over how the titles are displayed. The way I want them to be displayed is using the “Library” tab (rather than Recommended or Collections), and then sorting by “Folder” rather than by “Movies.” This way I can have a folder containing a TV show with multiple seasons, or a movie series grouped together into a folder.
I recently created a shared home user for my children with a “younger kid” restriction. However, when I go the Library and sort by Folders, nothing appears accept the message “There are no items in this folder.”
How can I have my kids’ user profile to view media as I do on the master account?
I wonder how Plex is supposed to get the information required to handle the access for those restriction profiles if you do everything you can to avoid Plex working the way it’s supposed to work?
If you mix everything up, Plex will fail to match your shows and therefore fail to get the corresponding age/content ratings. From what I remember, Plex will only show items to managed users if they have a age/content rating that matches their restrictions.
TL;DR: if you want your kid to see things exactly as you do while not changing your setup… don’t use a restriction profile (young kid / older kid / teen).
Keep in mind this will also allow them to access all content on Plex’ video on demand service without those restrictions (unless you disable it for good).
I can match the files through the media agents so pulls content ratings and other info, and I can change content rating of any file manually. But it still won’t display the folders. If I sort by movies and only had movies this wouldn’t be a problem, but then tv episodes are listed as well.
Remind me… why do you mix tv-shows and movies in the same library?
You know you can group movies using collections.
There’s always many ways how people use certain applications. Yours just seems overly complicated (like you’re trying to reproduce Plex features by going in the opposite direction) – no offense.
