Hello all, fairly new to Plex, but I’ve been getting my server up and going for the past few days. I have gotten to the point of having all of my movie files copied over to my server and looking at the library it’s showing 783 movies, but when I click on folders it’s showing 786. Is there an easy way to tell which 3 Plex is unhappy without having to go one by one and comparing the folder view with the library view?
Thanks!
Try this - Filter for Duplicates:
You may have a mismatched duplicate making your folder count incorrect.
Collections also count as 1 Item - when they may contain several movies.
I just checked that, but there were no duplicates or unmatched files.
Filter by anything OTHER THAN Title temporarily and see what that tells you.
Change the sorting from “by title” to anything else.
Does the number of items change?
Changing it from title to any of the other sort options and the count stays the same.
If you don’t have any Collections your file manager is counting items Plex isn’t seeing. <—like if you have anything THAT IS NOT media (like sub files not in a folder) - or something like that.
Have you any folders with “Extras” or “Sample” in their names?
Any DVD or Blu-ray direct copies with VOB or TS files in them?
I’m not sure. Just running through my folders real quick, I did find 2 movies with “sub” folders. Deleted them, rescanned my library and the count is still off. I’ll have to do a deeper look through of all the folders tomorrow and see if there is something extra in any of them.
No collections yet. Haven’t made it that far.
I do appreciate all the help!
I will be trying this out today. I went through all of my folders, found a few that had srt files or thumbs files, deleted them, rescanned the library and still no change. No sub folders in anything either. I just have a feeling there are 2 movies in there that it’s unable to match and trying to sort through that manually is no fun.
Thanks!
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