Add anime movie in two libraries (TV Show - Specials, Movies)

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#:1.8.4

How can I add anime movies, in two libraries (TV Show - Specials, Movies)?

If I put S00 in the file name, the movie library does not display, and if I take out the S00 it does not appear in the anime library (Tv Shows) in the specials.

Could someone help me with this? I would like to put a movie file in 2 libraries (Movies, Tv Shows - Speciais)

Sorry for my bad English

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There is only an advanced trick to achieve this: hard links.
Your media must be stored on a volume that is formatted with the NTFS file system (default for internal hard drives in Windows, but not necessarily for external drives)

You need to have folders for both media types on the same volume, e.g.

D:\ 
   Movies\
      Movie Title (year)\
         Movie Title (year).ext
      ... 
   TV Shows\
      Show Title (year)\
         Specials\
            s00e04 - my awesome OVA/Movie.ext
      ...

Now put the video files into one of them, named as required for this media type.
Then create a “hard link” from the video file to the appropriate folder in the other media type folder, named as required for that media type.

The result: the file only takes up storage space one time, but appears in two places on the drive – under two different names.

Normally, you’d need to create hard links at the command prompt (which of course is tedious and time-consuming).
But there is/are some utilities which extend the regular Windows file explorer with the needed functionality to create hard links.

(The Linux equivalent is called “symbolic links” or short “symlinks” which can be used on pretty much every server that is Linux-based [which includes the majority of NAS devices].)

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