Adding a Movie with Special Characters

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Hey all,

 

I've recently started using Plex to organize and play movies in combination with Chromecast, and I love the ease-of-use. It's my first time really looking into growing my digital media collection.

 

However, I run into a problem when it comes to the naming and organization conventions for movies. I am trying to store Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring on my media server. While I can upload it, Windows does not allow me to save any folder with the ':' character. Because the name is different, Plex does not automatically pull metadata for this movie (or any similar trilogy).

 

Is there a way around this issue?

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The agents in Plex will figure out what the movie is without the colon. and if the metadata is gotten from a source with the colon it will be represented in the database.  

http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/120-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring

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there is something else not right if it cant find that file, like file permsissions or something

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Name it like this Lord of the Rings- Fellowship of the Ring - 2001

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