The Plex search function will scan both your own library and all the libraries shared with you. If we search for the term “war”, for example, you can see that the first search result is located on our server but the next three results are located on our friend’s server. With features for Photos and Videos on Plex Pass, you can store, tag, and sort your beautiful photos and videos; view them on a map AND a myriad of devices. Our beloved customers already trust us with billions (yes billions!!!) of their photos. We recently unveiled automatic image tagging, which uses object and scene recognition, deep neural.
- Library plexapi.library ¶ class plexapi.library. Library (server, data, initpath = None, parent = None) source ¶. Bases: plexapi.base.PlexObject Represents a PlexServer library. This contains all sections of media defined in your Plex server including video, shows and au.
- : Plex will do its best to appropriately find and match content. However, a failure to separate content such as movies and TV shows may result in unexpected or incorrect behavior. In the above example, it is the main folder of each type of content (e.g. /Movies, /Music, /TV Shows) that you would specify as the content location for that library.
To combine Photos libraries, export the photos from a previous library or library you no longer want to use, then import the photos to your primary library.
Export photos from your library
- Press and hold the Option key as you open the Photos app.
- Select the Library that you no longer want, then click Choose Library.
- Choose View > Photos > Library, then click All Photos.
- Choose Edit > Select All to select all items in your library.
- Choose File > Export, then choose an option:
- To export your photos as-is and preserve any edits, choose “Export [number] Photos,” then select any additional options.1
- To export your photos as unmodified originals (without edits), choose “Export Unmodified Original for [number] Photos,” then select any additional options.2 If your photos include IPTC metadata (such as titles or keywords) that you want to keep, select the Export IPTC as XMP checkbox.
- Click Export, choose a destination to save your photos, click New Folder and enter a name for the folder, click Create, then click Export.
Import photos to your primary library
- Quit Photos, then press and hold the Option key as you open the Photos app.
- Select the library that you want to import your photos to, then click Choose Library.
- Choose File > Import.
- In the Import window, navigate to the Finder folder that contains the photos and videos that you want to import.
- Select the photos and videos to import, then choose Review for Import.
- Click Import All New Photos.
If you created subfolders when you exported the items and you want to create an Album for each subfolder, follow these steps:
- In the Import window, select the folders you want to import as albums.
- Select the Keep Folder Organization checkbox in the upper corner of the window. The top level folder is imported as a folder in Photos, and subfolders are imported as albums.
Save space by deleting the previous library
After you combine libraries and confirm your photos imported successfully, you can save space by deleting the library that you no longer need. Find the first Photos library and move it to the trash, then choose Finder > Empty Trash to permanently delete the files.
1.To find only edited photos in your library, you can create a smart album that has“Photo is edited” as a criteria for the album.
Plex Photo Library Setup
2. If your photos aren't captured on an iPhone or iPad, you may need to export photos in their original format.
Server Version#: 1.16.0.1226
Player Version#: Web Client 3.104.1, Apple TV 4K 2.3 (12437), Infuse Pro 6.0.8 (2607), LG WebOS 3.8.0, Plex for LG 3.103.1
Since migrating my Plex Media Server to a Docker container on unRAID 6.7.x Pro, the number of collections auto-created by Plex is less than half what I had when running PMS on MacOS or Windows. This really doesn’t apply to the player clients listed as they all see the same number of collections.
It is related to the collections that PMS can auto-create when scanning items added to the library. When deciding to migrate PMS to a Docker container on unRAID, I decided to go ahead and start from scratch so all of my media was scanned into new libraries, rather than importing my info from my previous Win10 build.
Plex Import Photos Library
I have over 4300 movies in my Movies library, so it’s taken a couple of days for me to organize just the posters and fix any errant or un-matched items. However, Plex collections used to number over 450 on my previous PMS installs on MacOS and Win10. The complete rebuild in the official Plexinc Docker container has only auto-created 191 collections.
I have ensured all of the agents like Plex Movie and The Movie Database scanners have the options set to ‘Use collection info from The Movie Database’, just like it was on my older PMS instances. I normally don’t show Collections in the main library view, but only access them from the Collections tab/filter in the clients.
Plex Photos Library
In trying to troubleshoot, I’ve changed Collections in the Advanced tab of my Movies library from my default of ‘Disabled’ to both ‘Show collections and their items’ and ‘Hide items which are in collections’. No matter which setting, when I force a manual library rescan, refresh metadata or analyze the Movies library, the number of collections remains at 191.
I am hoping there is some trick I can perform to force PMS to re-scan my library and build all collections from scratch. I’ve tried using Scan Library Files, Analyze and Refresh All Metadata in different order but no matter what, the collections never get re-created and I’m left with the same 191.
I do still have the full Plex Media Server application support folder from my previous Win10 install. If there’s a way for me to export the collections from that install and then import them into my unRAID Plex Docker install, I’m more than willing to try. Or if anyone has a suggestion how I might force PMS to rebuild all collections from scratch, that would be great too!.
As it took me a couple of days to correct all the poster art and errant matches, I really don’t want to start over with a fresh library and then have to re-do all my poster art, matching and metadata corrections. I will most certainly be willing to add collection tags for the custom collections I previously had, but hope there’s a way to at least build a more complete ‘starting over’ set of collections.
Plex Import Photos Library Mac
Any help/suggestions are appreciated! Thanks!