I use my Synology to run my movie collection through Plex. It’s been set up for years and works amazingly well. Then I added some TV shows with lots of episodes. I can watch them through Plex but the only way I could get the shows to load properly under the Plex heading of “TV Shows” (so it shows up properly when I load Plex on my TV) was to create a Shared Folder on my NAS for EACH TV Show. Now I’m starting to use my NAS for more than just movies and using it as storage for our computer files. But I’m frustrated with how many shared folders are now showing up under File Station and if I add more TV Series, these numerous folders are going to get out of hand very quickly. I want to get them organized. Do you know how I can get this cleaned up? Specifically, how can I get the the shared folders for TV shows in the Plex shared folder so that they still show up in Plex under “TV Shows”. I’ve tried moving them to a subfolder under TV Shows and then fixing the library, but on the Plex side, the folder doesn’t show up as an option - probably because it is just a “folder” and not a “shared folder”. I’ve looked up ways to add a Shared Folder under another Shared Folder and tried it multiple times but every time I add a new one, it just shows up at the top of the list in File Station. Thanks for any advice.
Always use the Plex naming convention for TV shows.
There is no need for multiple shared folders. All my content resides on a shared folder “media”. On that shared folder, are subfolders for movies, tv_shows…
Below the tv_shows folder is a folder for each series… for example “Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989)”. And below the series folders are season folders (Season 01, Season 02…).
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