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Flatten a library/remove folders - RadioActiveLamb - 2025-09-18
I've got a folder full of videos that are in folders and sub-folders. Jellyfin happily displays all the folders as I drill down to find the videos. Is it possible within the settings somewhere to flatten the library to display only the videos and ignore the folders?
RE: Flatten a library/remove folders - theguymadmax - 2025-09-18
You can skip subfolders by putting a .ignore file in the directory you want Jellyfin to skip: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/excluding-directory/
RE: Flatten a library/remove folders - RadioActiveLamb - 2025-09-19
I don't want to exclude the folders. I want the video contents of the folders and the subfolders to appear in the library as one flat list of videos.
RE: Flatten a library/remove folders - theguymadmax - 2025-09-19
Ok, then there's no other setting I know of that can do that. Funny enough, I recently helped someone with the opposite issue. They had a flat structure, and wanted them to appear as folders. The solution for them was to place each video inside a subfolder:
Videos
└── Item 1
├── Item 1
└── video.mkv
If you want everything to appear in a flat structure, the only way I know is to place each video in its own folder, without using subfolders. For example:
Videos
├── Item 1
│ └── video.mkv
└── Item 2
└── video.mkv
RE: Flatten a library/remove folders - RadioActiveLamb - 2025-09-29
Unfortunately, that would break the downloader app. Flattening-out the library is one thing that Plex does without having to reorganize the file system - I'm doing my best to convert to Jellyfin after being a lifetime Plexpass subscriber. Plex has lost it's way...