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Sometime in the last few months, Plex stopped recognizing multiple movie versions. I’ve been converting old .avi files to .mp4 or adding HD versions that previously I only had SD, and when I add them to the library, they’re showing up as newly added movies. Furthermore, if I go into the Movie library, they show up right next to each other with all the same metadata and info. I can manually merge them, but it’s tedious and I’ve never had to do that before. Also, all these old movies now show up on my home page as Recently Added, when they’ve been in my library for years, which is also annoying.
Besides regular updates, the only change I can think of since I started noticing was that I finally gave in to the constant upgrade notifications and upgraded all my libraries to Plex libraries a few months ago, and this might be the first time I’ve added new files for the same movie since then.
Definitely seems to indicate that it is related to the switch over to using the Plex agent since the older file references TMDB. So how do I fix this so it stops happening?
Refreshing Metadata for the full library worked. I tried adding a few more duplicates, and they were recognized as such and didn’t show up in the Recently Added section.
