If you have watched a movie and are unlikely to want to watch it again, you can delete it in much the same way as you move, add or change them. Plex often automatically scans the folders for any changes but sometimes this doesn’t happen quickly enough. The changes should be reflected in your library once Plex has detected them.

Go into the library you just changed then click Update Library.

Copy or rename your movie, TV show or other content on your computer as you would any other file.

Turn off the power on the Plex Media Server.

You will then need to scan your library again with Plex so it picks up the changes. As long as you stop the Plex Media Server first, you can move, rearrange and rename movies and TV as you see fit. The same rules apply for moving and renaming movies in Plex.

Navigate to your movie folder then click Add Library.

Name the library, choose your language then hit Next.

Select Movies in the Add Library window that pops up.

Click the ‘+’ sign at the Plex home page.

Assuming you have prepared a folder on your computer to store your movies and have named them as required, you just need to follow these steps: If you don’t yet have a movie folder, you need to add a library.

If Plex does not detect the movie automatically, go into the Library in Plex and click Update Library, forcing a rescan of the available media. To add a movie in Plex you just need to add the movie to your computer in the folder you specified for movies when setting up Plex, which will then scan the folder for changes and pick up the new movie. That’s fine when you have movies or TV shows present when installing Plex, but what about after you install Plex? That’s where the Plex Media Manager comes in handy. It then catalogs what you have and displays the content in your media list. When you first install Plex, you set it to search specific drives or folders for media. So if you have created a Movies, TV and Music folder on your computer and have them set up as sources for Plex, any changes you make in those folders will be picked up by Plex. The good thing is that Plex will use whatever you have on your computer. If you need to add, move and delete a movie in Plex, here is how to do it. The time spent renaming, adding, moving and even deleting my media within Plex has made finding, watching and binging a breeze and I am now converted.

Adding movies to plex