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    Jellyfin Forum Support General Questions Flatten a library/remove folders

     
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    Flatten a library/remove folders

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    2025-09-18, 10:53 PM
    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?
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    2025-09-18, 10:56 PM
    You can skip subfolders by putting a .ignore file in the directory you want Jellyfin to skip: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...directory/
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    Yesterday, 04:56 PM
    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.
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    Yesterday, 05:20 PM
    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
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