[m021478]

I have a 9.5TB RAID drive that I have all of my media stored on, including nearly 1350+ movies, and I wanted to find out how some of you would approach the task of creating an "optimal" folder hierarchy for all of the movies on this drive. I ask because my movies come in all flavors, including:

-VIDEO_TS folders
-folder stacks (Movie-cd1.avi; Movie-cd2.avi, etc...)
-single-file movies (avi, mkv, m4p, mp4, mov, wmv, etc...) ~ and many of these have an accompanying .nfo file
-ISO images
-and possibly some others I've neglected to list here

I'd like to adhere to the advice offered in the Plex Wiki's Getting Started Guide about creating an optimal folder structure by keeping things as flat as possible, but I have to create at least one second level of my folder hierarchy because the VIDEO_TS folders cannot be in the same folder level of the hierarchy as the stacked movies folders (in which scan recursively would need to be enabled in order to provide seamless playback of a multi-part movie)

Anyone have any tips or pointers that I might want to consider when creating an optimal folder hierarchy for all of my Plex Movies?

Thanks!

[poofyhairguy]

m021478, on Jun 25 2009, 05:48 AM, said:

I have a 9.5TB RAID drive that I have all of my media stored on, including nearly 1350+ movies, and I wanted to find out how some of you would approach the task of creating an "optimal" folder hierarchy for all of the movies on this drive. I ask because my movies come in all flavors, including:

-VIDEO_TS folders
-folder stacks (Movie-cd1.avi; Movie-cd2.avi, etc...)
-single-file movies (avi, mkv, m4p, mp4, mov, wmv, etc...) ~ and many of these have an accompanying .nfo file
-ISO images
-and possibly some others I've neglected to list here

I'd like to adhere to the advice offered in the Plex Wiki's Getting Started Guide about creating an optimal folder structure by keeping things as flat as possible, but I have to create at least one second level of my folder hierarchy because the VIDEO_TS folders cannot be in the same folder level of the hierarchy as the stacked movies folders (in which scan recursively would need to be enabled in order to provide seamless playback of a multi-part movie)

Anyone have any tips or pointers that I might want to consider when creating an optimal folder hierarchy for all of my Plex Movies?

Thanks!

I personally keep every different type of media file in a different folder. This allows for different scraping options like you mentioned. I have have different folders for Aired order TV and DVD order TV. I let the libary put them all together.

[jayman978]

I keep all of my movies in one Movie source and all TV shows in one TV source and have not had a problem with it so far. As long as your structure looks like this across the board for movies you should be fine:

Movies (source)
--Batman Begins (2005).mkv
--The Dark Knight (2007)
----The Dark Knight - CD1.avi
----The Dark Knight - CD2.avi
----The Dark Knight.nfo
--Gran Torino
----VIDEO_TS

As long as there is not a folder between the source and the Movie name file/folder then you don't have to worry about Scan Recursively. Something to remember about nfo files and Plex. When Plex sees and nfo file it will only use local info for that movie. That includes poster and fanart. IIRC, it will not retrieve poster and fanart from the scraper when an nfo file is present. Someone please correct me if my recollection is off.

[ClunkClunk]

I keep my stuff just like Jayman does and I don't really have any issues. I rarely use VIDEO_TS, but when I do, Plex has no problems with it.