How to ignore the folder containing .embyignore?

[Fweep 11]

I have folders named .hidden in which I previously had empty files named .ignore. This was sufficient to hide the entire folder from Emby.

The folders reappeared due to the changes in 4.9, so I renamed the .ignore files to .embyignore and put an asterisk in each one. I rescanned my files but the .hidden folders are still showing up in Emby.

For example, I have folders:

• TV/Programs/Girl Code (2015)/.hidden
• TV/Programs/Girl Code (2015)/Specials
• TV/Programs/Girl Code (2015)/Season 1
• TV/Programs/Girl Code (2015)/Season 2
• TV/Programs/Girl Code (2015)/Season 3
• TV/Programs/Girl Code (2015)/Season 4

Inside .hidden is the .embyignore file along with some conversion notes and scripts—no playable content.

Emby (web & Roku) shows .hidden as a "season" of the TV show, with no content. What's the trick to getting rid of it again?

[Happy2Play 9797]

Think you have to change the content of the embyignore file as the wildcard only ignores the files not the folder

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• To ignore all files in a folder, place an .embyignore file containing a * in the folder that is to be ignored.

Where you want to ignore the folder also 

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• To ignore a folder private-vids and all files and folders below it, place an .embyignore file containing private_vids/* in the root folder of the library.

.embyignore containing .hidden/* in Girl Code (2015) folder

Excluding Files & Folders | Emby Documentation

Edited 18 hours ago by Happy2Play

[Fweep 11]

That does not work, probably because the show's folder is not the root folder of the library.

If I put .embyignore in the library's appropriate root folder, and then reference the .hidden folder(s) relative to that location, then it works:

*/.hidden
*/*/.hidden
*/*/*/.hidden

This seems less than ideal though. There seems to be no way to ignore the folder containing .embyignore like the old system did.

If you are going to have * ignore all the files, why not also ignore the folder itself? Or if the containing folder must be explicitly mentioned, give us a way to do it from within the file, e.g. using a dot (.) or slash dot (/.). Or for a root-level .embyignore, give us a way to easily match a pattern at any depth.

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Fweep

[Luke 42145]

You could also just do:

.hidden

And it will hide folders of that name at any level underneath.

[Fweep 11]

Ah, that simplifies the content of .embyignore. Thanks, Luke.

Unfortunately, this still means I have to put the .embyignore files up one level from the folder I want to hide… but of course, not any higher than the library root folders.

It seems rather a shortcoming of this new system that it no longer supports any way for a folder to designate itself as ignored. Consider it a feature request, I guess.