Versteckte Ordner mit Server 4.9 wieder sichtbar

[Fragensteller 9]

Hi, ich habe diverse Ordner früher mit den einfachen, leeren Dateien .ignore und .nomedia ausgeblendet. Jetzt habt ihr Spezialisten das einfach geändert: https://emby.media/support/articles/Excluding-Files-Folders.html.

Bei einem Ordner kann ich machen und tun was ich will - dieses .embyignore greift einfach nicht! Wieso habt ihr das mit .ignore einfach rausgeworfen? Wieso habt ihr diese Option nicht einfach ergänzt????? Jetzt kann ich wieder zusehen, wie ich die Ordner versteckt bekomme. Das sind solche Arten von Änderungen, die ich gar nicht leiden kann. Unnötige Arbeit beschaffen! Kann doch nicht wahr sein!!!!!!!!!!

[Fragensteller 9]

Der Inhalt der .embyignore schaut bei mr so aus:
 

# alle "log"-Ordner (egal wo) ignorieren
log/*
*/log/*

# alle ".mlumo"-Ordner (egal wo) ignorieren
.mlumo/*
*/.mlumo/*

Aber jene Ordner, die im Serienordner neben dem Staffelordnern liegen, tauchen trotzdem auf.

[Fragensteller 9]

Hab es selber rausgefunden - danke für die "tolle" Unterstützung.

[Luke 42077]

HI, apologies for the delay. What was the solution?

[Luke 42077]

And i apologize that you had to update your ignores. I understand that may have been frustrating. The good news is that going forward, the ignore capabilities are much more powerful than before !

[Fragensteller 9]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

And i apologize that you had to update your ignores. I understand that may have been frustrating. The good news is that going forward, the ignore capabilities are much more powerful than before !

Wenn Sie Ihr eigene Neuerung nicht verstehen und erklären können, hätten Sie es vielleicht besser beim Alten belassen sollen...

[Luke 42077]

22 hours ago, Fragensteller said:

If you can't understand and explain your own innovation, perhaps you should have left it as it was...

I can explain it.  I am sorry that we just didn't respond to you quickly enough. But I can help with any questions that you have on it.

[Fragensteller 9]

Gut, und warum steht das dann nicht einfach in der Dokumentation, wie man es am besten einstellt?

[Luke 42077]

On 10/17/2025 at 2:05 AM, Fragensteller said:

Gut, und warum steht das dann nicht einfach in der Dokumentation, wie man es am besten einstellt?

Hi,  We will have @sa2000look at improving it. Thanks.

[sa2000 674]

@Fragensteller I am sorry that you found the documentation here https://emby.media/support/articles/Excluding-Files-Folders.html not to be clear and you had to work it out yourself.

If you care to tell me what was unclear and needs to be added or clarified, I will do so.

Could you give me examples of filenames / folder names / structure and the relating .embyignore contents that you worked out as needed and I will look into it

Thank You

 

[EmblemJD 21]

Hello @sa2000

Sorry to hijack the post but I also struggle a bit with the embyignore file and wonder if the following is intended behavior or not?

I have this Folder Structure as an example:

• MAIN_SHARE
  .embyignore
  • FOLDER_01
    <Movie Files>
  • FOLDER_02
    <Movie Files>
  • FOLDER_03
    <Movie Files>
  • FOLDER_04
    <Movie Files>

My .embyignore only has these exclusions:

FOLDER_02/*
FOLDER_03/*
FOLDER_04/*

My understanding:

I create a library with the only folder added being MAIN_SHARE

• Expected result:
  only FOLDER01 shows due to .embyignore exclusions in library root
• Actual result: only FOLDER01 Movie Files

However, if I create a separate library and manually add the folders FOLDER_02 / _03 and _04 (excluding the "root" MAIN_SHARE that houses .embyignore)

• Expected result:
  Folder content of _02 / _03 and _04 show in the library as they are explicitly added and do not have .embyignore in their respective root
• Actual result:
  The library stays empty

I thought only .embyignore in the root of the library (ie. the highest folder in the tree added to the library) would count?

Does Emby check for .embyignore in the parent of the added the folder instead? Is this intended? Many thanks for clearing that up! 

[sa2000 674]

@EmblemJD

5 hours ago, EmblemJD said:

However, if I create a separate library and manually add the folders FOLDER_02 / _03 and _04 (excluding the "root" MAIN_SHARE that houses .embyignore)

• Expected result:
  Folder content of _02 / _03 and _04 show in the library as they are explicitly added and do not have .embyignore in their respective root
• Actual result:
  The library stays empty

I will see if I can reproduce this

Can you get me a screenshot of the library settings screen for this test library showing all the defined folder paths

And confirmation where the .embyignore is and what it contains

 

Edited December 22, 2025 by sa2000

[sa2000 674]

and to eliminate any overlapping libraries being involved so as not to complicate matters, are these folders FOLDER_02, FOLDER_03, FOLDER_04 still part of media in the other library?

 

[sa2000 674]

7 hours ago, EmblemJD said:

have this Folder Structure as an example:

• MAIN_SHARE
  .embyignore
  • FOLDER_01
    <Movie Files>
  • FOLDER_02
    <Movie Files>
  • FOLDER_03
    <Movie Files>
  • FOLDER_04
    <Movie Files>

My .embyignore only has these exclusions:

FOLDER_02/*
FOLDER_03/*
FOLDER_04/*

My understanding:

I create a library with the only folder added being MAIN_SHARE

• Expected result:
  only FOLDER01 shows due to .embyignore exclusions in library root
• Actual result: only FOLDER01 Movie Files

For this with an .embyignore in the root of the library containing

FOLDER_02/*
FOLDER_03/*
FOLDER_04/*

- the view of the library in the "Movies" tab should be all movies within FOLDER_01

- the view of the library in the "Folders" tab would be all folders, but drilling down into "Folder_02" or "Folder_03" or "Folder_04" should not display any media - whereas "Folder_01" would show the contents

Switching to this in the .embyignore within the MAIN_SHARE root of the library should not show "Folder_02", "Folder_03", "Folder_04" in the folders view but due to a bug they do show as empty folders

FOLDER_02/
FOLDER_03/
FOLDER_04/

You will find that the following gives a better outcome with the skipped folders not showing in the Folders view

/FOLDER_02
/FOLDER_03
/FOLDER_04

 

7 hours ago, EmblemJD said:

if I create a separate library and manually add the folders FOLDER_02 / _03 and _04 (excluding the "root" MAIN_SHARE that houses .embyignore)

• Expected result:
  Folder content of _02 / _03 and _04 show in the library as they are explicitly added and do not have .embyignore in their respective root
• Actual result:
  The library stays empty

I have tested and the behaviour is correct. With a library definition with 3 folder paths defined in library settings:

Path to MAIN_SHARE\FOLDER_02
Path to MAIN_SHARE\FOLDER_03
Path to MAIN_SHARE\FOLDER_04

and no .embyignore within any of these folders or below

and leaving an unrelated .embyignore in "Path to MAIN_SHARE\FOLDER_01", the movies tab view is just the movies within FOLDER_02, FOLDER_03, FOLDER_04 

and the Folders tab view shows the 3 folders: FOLDER_02, FOLDER_03, FOLDER_04 and the movies within them can be seen when drilling down

What version of Emby Server are you using ?

If your results are different from what I had in my tests, please provide full and the exact details and emby server log after captured after scanning the library and screenshots of the library folders definition and outcome and also screenshot of the contents of the .embyignore and directory listings showing where it is

Thanks