Plex: Ignore Directories

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Description:

Follow these steps to have Plex Media Server ignore a directory.

To Resolve:

  1. So let’s say we have a folder: C:\vids. In it, you have two normal folders youtube and movies that Plex scans and adds to its libraries. But let’s say we have a private-vids folder in there that is hidden in Windows Explorer that you don’t want Plex to scan. What you do is create a file called .plexignore and put the folder followed by /* as the value. Plex will then skip it. In Powershell, this looks like:

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    Set-Location C:\vids
(ni -ItemType file -Value "private-vids/*" -Name .plexignore).attributes="hidden"

  2. Now you can verify:

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    cd c:\vids
ls
# Shows "youtube" folder and "movies" folder
ls -Hidden
# Shows "private-vids" folder and ".plexignore" file
cat .\.plexignore
# returns: private-vids/*

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