Ok, so what I want to do is to be able to force a refresh of a specific TV Show, not my whole TV Library So I am trying to use the command line scanner on OS X, On the command line scanner support page it shows there is a --directory flag. But even if I set that it still seems to refresh all the s…

any progress on this issue? i have the exact same behavior as @ EldonMcGuinness pretty annoying so far. seems like an 5 year old issue? these bugs makes the whole cli-options completely useless @ChuckPa , this is what i’ve been talking the whole weeks about “metadata not getting loaded”

@sa2000 @ChuckPa Can we get some info on this? Why is this being ignored? Its so easy to reproduce, surely this can be resolved without years of wait…

@sa2000 @ChuckPa I’m not sure the Plex-team knows how much this actually impacts some of us. So I’ll chip in and report my frustration as well. Hopefully this will get fixed some time.

I have this working on Windows 7 in a script for both movies and TV shows… My setup maybe different not sure… edit; sorry I was in a rush… I have it set up on the PMS server so I can right click the folder for a movie or TV show and select Run Plex Scanner. [image] Selection of a movie… [image…

How is this “script” different from envoking the plex cli scanner? Can we see this script you are using?

I just entered a detailed description… and lost it in this forum, was just finishing up when I got a forum message and this message went blank. I’ll try again when I some more time…

Thanks, please do - Im very interested in getting this solved, and Plex doesnt seem to care at all about this problem. I wonder what i pay money for, support definitely aint one of them

giving this a try again… Please read this entirely before you decide to use either of the scripts below. Test it out on files that are easily recovered if you decide to go forward. The difference is that my script runs the Plex scanner for just the Movie or Series that I want. The normal ‘Scan Li…

Thanks for the detailed reponse, unfortunately it doesnt seem like you do anything we dont already do - So most likely you just dont have any other unmatched items outside the folder you are scanning :frowning:

I just know it’s the easiest way for me to add and update Plex… I do have the auto scans that Plex kicks off all disabled… I use my process, I manually start library scans depending how much was added over time and then I clean up the databases. I have not had it scan anything other than what was…

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I have also already opened a Thread in the Linux-Section:

But no answer, no comment from the Plex Team in the last 2.5 Months

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