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Avoid recursive scan possible? - geohei - 2025-06-04
Hi.
Is it possible to tell Jellyfin to avoid recursive scan of directories inside a library?
I didn't find an option.
Thanks,
RE: Avoid recursive scan possible? - crobibero - 2025-06-04
Not sure what you're looking to do really, but you can exclude directories like so https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/excluding-directory/
Jellyfin 10.11 will have expanded exclude functionality as well
RE: Avoid recursive scan possible? - geohei - 2025-06-08
Basically, my file/folder structure looks like this:
Movies
├── Serie 01
│ ├── Season 01
│ │ ├── Season 01
│ │ ├── ...
│ ├── Season xx
│ ├── .ignore
│ └── ...
├── Movie 01
├── Movie 02
├── Movie 03
├── ...
└── Movie xx
The Series are inside the Movies directory.
.ignore is a flag for all libraries, in my case Serie 01.If
.ignore is used, it applies to all libraries.I would like to be able to manually enable/disable individual folders for specific library only.
- One library for the Movies, where I exclude all Shows
- One library for the Shows, where I exclude all Movies
I guess I that's not possible, so I'll wait until 10.11.
Before restructuring my entire media tree, I'd like to make sure that I fully understand the Jellyfin possibilities/options in this respect.
RE: Avoid recursive scan possible? - crobibero - 2025-06-08
That will not be supported in 10.11 either
Please follow our documented naming convention for Jellyfin to work properly.