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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.