After upgrading 4.6, emby start scaning folders that starts with a "." dot

[CentWind 4]

it makes a lot of inconvenience.

Emby Excluding Files & Folders : Emby

[Carlo 4561]

I just did a test and can confirm the "dot" folder is being scanned.

@Luke

[Luke 42079]

It's because it's valid. You'll need to use the features that we have to ignore it, but more options are possible for the future.

[CentWind 4]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

It's because it's valid. You'll need to use the features that we have to ignore it, but more options are possible for the future.

Thanks for replying. Fortunately, it did not affect too many series in my sever.

This upgrade may cause many problems. I'm not blaming you that you have to ignore some feature. I know it may bring more benefits in the future.

However, before doing some update like this, which may cause users' media server in mess, I think it should be told to the user to check. There also many users not using forums, perhaps they will not know what happens to their server. Especially, this feature is still on the official site, letting user to use "." dot. Emby Excluding Files & Folders : Emby

[ebr 16184]

We will fix the KB.  Thanks.

[GregMo 24]

Any insight to why this was done?  I literally have hundreds of .extras folders that are now going to have to be fixed.

[Luke 42079]

5 minutes ago, GregMo said:

Any insight to why this was done?  I literally have hundreds of .extras folders that are now going to have to be fixed.

Because we've learned there are legitimate shows and movies that start with a dot so we had to remove it.

[GregMo 24]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

Because we've learned there are legitimate shows and movies that start with a dot so we had to remove it.

Makes sense.  Would be nice if it was a setting that could be turned on or off.  Of course I really don't know, but I would guess there's a lot more of us out there that are using periods to ignore folders than users that have these shows and movies that start with the period.  Just a wild guess tho.

[Luke 42079]

Hi, yes, more control over this is certainly possible. Thanks for the feedback.

[Luke 42079]

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but I would guess there's a lot more of us out there that are using periods to ignore folders than users that have these shows and movies that start with the period

In this case that's not a valid argument because there is a difference - you do still have other ways to ignore folders, albeit not your desired way, but there are still ways. If we blindly ignore, then those users do not have any way to get that content imported into their server.

[BillybobBilly 18]

On 5/22/2021 at 2:30 PM, Luke said:

In this case that's not a valid argument because there is a difference - you do still have other ways to ignore folders, albeit not your desired way, but there are still ways. If we blindly ignore, then those users do not have any way to get that content imported into their server.

What are some other ways of ignoring folders?

[Luke 42079]

@cayars can point you to our help topics on that.

[Carlo 4561]

The shortest KB article
https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159118-excluding-files-folders

"To exclude a folder from the library scan, simply place a file inside the folder named .ignore
This will cause Emby to ignore all subfolders as well."