Question about library organization

[Overtake8914]

   
Just finish setting up my jellyfin server, there is no hope anymore   . I do have a question about file organization. From my searching jellyfin does not have a feature where you can select what user is allowed to see what movie. That the only way to has this fuctionality is to have multiple libraries and have the movies I want each user to have in those libraries. Is this correct? If it is, it will create a lot of copies of the same movie that my drives will have to support. I do have some storage technique to limit this a bit but I am just seeing if there are better ways on doing this. So the plan storage layout is what is in the attached png. Where the common folder will have the movies that all users will have and then the User X folders will be individual user folders that have movies just for them. Is that the correct way?

[TheDreadPirate]

If you are using Linux, you can use symlinks.  That's how I handle my kid's library.  I created a separate folder to point her library to then filled that folder with symlinks with curated shows appropriate for her age.

   

[Overtake8914]

Didn't even think of doing that. Cool. I have another question and it might just me being new to jellyfin. It looks like libraries cant have the same name even if the underlying is different. What I would like to do is each user have a "movie" library which contain all the common movies I want all users to have but then have the user spasific ones in there as well. It looks like I can only do this by having a library called "movies" that just has the common movies and then make another library for each user like "movies user1" etc. Is this correct or is there a better way of doing this?

[TheDreadPirate]

I've never tried to make multiple libraries with the same name (don't have access to my JF to test, atm), but it makes sense that you can't have multiple libraries with the same name. Even if some are only accessible by a particular user.

I would say what you are describing is the expected behavior and you would need to name each "movies" library uniquely.