How to ignore the folder containing .embyignore?

[Fweep 12]

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 yesterday at 07:18 AM by Happy2Play

[Fweep 12]

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 yesterday at 09:52 AM by Fweep

[Luke 42149]

You could also just do:

.hidden

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

[Fweep 12]

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.

[Luke 42149]

3 hours ago, Fweep said:

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.

Thanks for the feedback !

[wowthissucks 1]

14 hours ago, Luke said:

Thanks for the feedback !

Yeah, just to show support adding the feature is fine, but breaking the old one means people will need to"

• go find all the folders where the .ignore files used to be
• navigate one level up, and then create a new file, and copy the path of the old ignore file
• repeat for every folder where they have ignore files.

this is tedious.

all with no real heads up about the change, and most of us probably already tried to replace our .ignores with .embyignores with a * in the file.

kind of a bad UX decision, IMO

Edited 1 hour ago by wowthissucks