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For some reason, 2 movies on my Plex server – James Bond’s Skyfall 2012 and Maleficent Mistress of Evil 2010 swap in the database, and generally one or the other “wins out” – even though in different folders, only one (usually Skyfall) plays, and for some reason is copied over the other in that folder. The files are not the same size, have different time-stamps, are in different folders. This is the only set of movies I’ve noticed that have this issue. I have over 2200 movies and tv programs on my NAS drive, and use a Win 10 desktop PC for streaming. It’s not a common occurence. More of a pain at this point. Been streaming Plex for about 4 or 5 years now.
Even after I manually delete the files from Plex server, if they’re restored, days later go right back to the same issue. Tried renaming. Tried re converting. Not sure what I can do at this point. Any help/ideas much appreciated.
Considering Plex isn’t usually messing with your actual files… did you recently install or enable some other apps or change your workflow of adding new files to Plex?
No. I again deleted both files (from within the Plex system/database) and re-assembled/converted both using DVDFab x64 (the only worthwhile vid conversion progam out there), and only added Maleficient not Skyfall. So explain this in the poster board options…
It does, so far, point to only Maleficient in my Children’s Movies folder, so at least that’s functional, but am not going to load Skyfall again until I iron this out…
I’ve checked. I cleaned metadata tags and remove title/description info – if any – from the file properties prior to loading into Plex. I typically name my files My Movie Title (2019).mp4/mkv
Or inspect them yourself. Take a look at the Plex Media Server.log file and seek for messages about database corrupt or malformed.
If you find these, you may have to repair your database.
Did as suggested. Checked the logs. Nothing about corrupt or malformed or errors that I could find. But I wouldn’t doubt with that many files, over a period of 4-5 years, that something could get screwed-up.
I copied over the Skyfall file last night (to the James Bond folder) and this morning it was deleted (somehow), by Plex or the NAS drive. So I tried copying over into the same folder, and this time I rec’d an I/O error.; as if the file existed but it certainly wasn’t there in that folder on the (NAS) drive. So what the hell, I just copied it to my Action movies’ folder and now seems to co-exist with the other one. Strange stuff. I’ll keep you posted. This is just weird and as long as it’s just this movie good. I probably should rebuild the database at some point, which is what any DBA would tell you to do, but I’m lazy…
I just got an error message beginning around Monday that my B drive of my WD Cloud 8 TB drive is failing. 3 days of copying files to other locations, later, I suppose that could be the culprit. Unfortunately I striped that RAID combo with the default 0 so no redundancy… sigh. I’m guessing that since it’s really only PLEX using this NAS that it’s puts a little heavier load. The WD Cloud Duo is just over 5 years old. I haven’t had a WD drive fail in me for 18 years. And I’ve been assembling these for nearly 25
