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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Media Scanning & Identification Avoid recursive scan possible?

     
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    Avoid recursive scan possible?

    geohei
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    2025-06-04, 08:48 AM (This post was last modified: 2025-06-04, 08:48 AM by geohei.)
    Hi.

    Is it possible to tell Jellyfin to avoid recursive scan of directories inside a library?
    I didn't find an option.

    Thanks,
    crobibero
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    2025-06-04, 05:03 PM
    Not sure what you're looking to do really, but you can exclude directories like so https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...directory/

    Jellyfin 10.11 will have expanded exclude functionality as well
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    18 minutes ago
    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.
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