# Analyze not doing anything

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369 "2025-01-15T06:44:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![austin526](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@austin526](https://forums.plex.tv/u/austin526)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369/1 "2025-01-15T06:44:53Z")

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As the title says. I keep hitting analyze on a season, show, library and it does absolutely nothing. Doesn’t detect intros like I’m hoping for.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369/2 "2025-01-15T08:55:44Z")

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You must do it on a single episode.

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**Author:** ![Divideby0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@Divideby0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Divideby0)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369/3 "2025-01-15T19:42:31Z")

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Yeah, I’d _just_ tried to re-trigger analysis on a show that I know had bad intro markers (due to a replacement in a bad file). Nothing happened when I hit analyze on the show level, which surprised me.

So yeah, select each episode. In a browser, you can click an “invisible button” that appears when you mouse over it next to the episode count on a season. This lets you select all episodes at once. Then on the orange-bordered menu that appears along the top, click `...` \> `Analyze` and it should do the trick:

 ![click](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/3/b/7/3b73fca1dfe67d7548fe6a00ee92f168c7abe2bb.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![austin526](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@austin526](https://forums.plex.tv/u/austin526)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369/4 "2025-01-16T06:35:37Z")

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Figured out where my issue was. Even though the intro detection is set to on in the main settings, it’s also a setting in the TV shows section itself and mine was off for both intro and credits. I also took the advice and analyzed by selecting episodes and it worked.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/analyze-not-doing-anything/902369/5 "2025-04-16T06:35:52Z")

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