Access\Grouping Folders

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So I'm guessing that this has something to do with the back end maintenance, because replacing the previous method without keeping all the features is a weird choice. What's weirder is that it was presented as something new (user level access!) when we had this before.

 

The biggest issue is that under the previous method you could decide what was important to you, keep up to date\focused on your home screen, and throw the rest of the sub folders assigned to you into a general Movie or TV folder. This step back has effectively hidden my content from me again, and was one of the big bonuses in jumping ship from Plex. Surely there was at least one tester with a movie library larger than a couple thousand movies that highlighted this?

 

The integrated folder view seems okay over the previous top level item you realize that it's slooooooooooow (it looks like the server caches a couple of the requests?) and the average user will find it tedious. Weirder still is that genre view is pretty speedy.

 

So looking for solutions or workarounds.

• A couple years ago when I used Plex, I had to make a combined library and then make a duplicate library that was focused on something people\I liked. Is this possible? Is it going to have the expected side effect of double search results? Do I turn of metadata grabbing in the duplicate library?
• Another option would be to rely more on the genre view (not great but it'll do), but that requires a lot of touch up. Has mass editing been implemented yet, or am I going to have to write something that interacts with the API, nfo editor or (i hope not) tweak the db?

 

Or is it possible I'm getting ahead of the features and there's virtual libraries or something in the pipeline?