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[Divideby0]

Plex can look into one sublevel of folder for the root of your TV shows. You need to target the folder that contains the folders of all your shows one by one. You cannot do subfolders within that to try to “contain” multiple shows. For example, using TheLivingBubba’s example, you cannot do this:

/tv
├── Show A
│   ├── Season 1
│   ├── Season 2
├── Show B
│   ├── Season 1
├── Show C
│   ├── Season 1
│   ├── Season 2
│   ├── Season 3
├── Animated Shows
│   ├── Show D
│   │   ├── Season 1
│   ├── Show E
│   │   ├── Season 1
│   ├── Show F
│   │   ├── Season 1

Plex will see the Animated Shows folder and think that it is a show itself, and match to something completely random. It then recursively drills down into each subfolder within it, ignores the names of folders, and finds the video files. It then (mostly) ignores the file names, and looks simply for a SxxExx format of some kind.

Since it ignores folder names and most of the file names, you will notice that shows D through F all have a first season. Plex will set every one of these show’s S01E01 as “duplicates” of eachother, for whatever random show it “matched” to based on the name “Animated Shows”.

I only bring this up, because I know a lot of people like to categorize their shows, or group up similar shows. Unfortunately, Plex does not like anything but a flat structure. You can group shows by genre, as the OP has done, but you must set the root of each genre folder as a source. You can group your shows by letter, but you must add each letter as a source.

I used to collect all the Scooby Doo shows into a “Scooby Doo” folder in my TV shows, but Plex broke on that, merging all the shows into one. I was forced to break them out into the base level. Using Plex’s ability to force a match using `{TVDB-xxxxx} in the folder name, I was able to organize these shows how I like, like this:

[OttoKerner]

What is tvdm?

[JohnSHomeServer]

Success, it worked, i deleted the old tv library and just relinked the basic “TV” folders on the different drives and it seems to be working, I just have to segregate the shows i don’t have properly named and organized yet, and im sure ill have to go through and check for misidentified shows (same name, different year/type of show)

[Divideby0]

Did you ninja edit my post? I don’t see it in my post.

[OttoKerner]

The 5th line in your screenshot.

[Divideby0]

Ah, thanks. I’d had it matched years ago without the {}s, and added them a year ago. It’s still in my library, so I suppose plex kept the match despite the malformed {tvdb} tag. Thanks for pointing that typo out.

(My library has been hand-typed, not automated. I’m amazed I don’t have more typos)