# 10 episodes not showing up

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**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/10-episodes-not-showing-up/439086 "2019-07-29T04:57:38Z")\
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> [@JasonNalley](#):
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> (Likely 10 episodes per disk, and D1 are all getting grouped together as if they are episode 01, but haven’t been able to confirm that yet)

It is pointless to try and find why Plex is doing this or that with non-conforming file names. Stick to the naming conventions and you can reduce missing files and mismatches by almost 100%.

And I recommend you to rename your files **before** adding them into Plex. Because Plex is storing a ‘bogohash’ of your media in its database. If it mis-matched an item because of a non-conforming file name, the bogohash is stuck in the database and Plex will continue to recognize this file as the wrong media – even after you rename it afterwards.  
This state can be only cleared with the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-incorrectly-identifying-tv-episodes/100265/4 "Plex Dance"). Which is bothersome and pretty annoying to do.

Hence my recommendation: rename your files by default.

The Plex naming schema is the most non-ambiguous of them all and is well understood by other media managers/player/servers.  
So there is no reason to not adhere to it.

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