Long story short, a file in a series was labeled differently, so Plex was assuming episode 135 was the only episode. I deleted the series from the library so I could fix it and re-add it. Now nothing I do lets it re-add the series with the file name fixed. I’ve moved the folder, changed the name, …

OK so how exactly are the files named.

For the show I’m trying to re-add, it’s just a single file with every episode in it, named /(showname)(Episode#)(uploadercredits) As far as I can tell, since Plex did sort one episode of the show, I think when I deleted it it may have made Plex just ignore that show when searching? Because I even c…

[image] brennanbarnard1991_gmail_com: it’s just a single file with every episode in it, so this is all just one multi-episode file? then what episode number(s) did you put in file name? https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/#toc-2 can you tell me what…

So it’s a single folder containing all 146 episodes, with each episode labeled "/HunterxHunter_XXX_[bunch of uploader info] When I first added it to my library episode 136 was labeled “HunterxHunter_136v2” and Plex seemed to identify that episode, and because it was labeled differently it thought i…

even if you only have one season you need to name them correctly so plex recognizes it as a TV show. TV libraries intentionally ignore things without proper notation. It will try at times but will mostly fail if not what it is expecting. it is expecting an S01E123 If you want to stick them all in o…

Thank you, that makes sense, I will try that tonight

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Can't get Plex to find TV series

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