so let’s start as stated earlier… get the names straight.
Example (to the letter:
TV Shows ← supposed main folder .. \ Blade (2011) ← putting the year in brackets .. .. \ Season 01 .. .. .. \ Blade (2011) - S01E01 - The Man, Blade... .ext .. .. .. \ Blade (2011) - S01E02 - Mad World.ext .. .. .. \ ...
#2/ Have you performed the Plex Dance as described above by Elijah? This is important to make sure Plex is not mixing the “new” additions up with files it already knows and putting them in the same old (and wrong) context!
as for the stacking… when you click ... > Get Info for the episodes with stacked versions, Plex will tell show you which files are being bundled.
Ok now did all of what Elijah suggested after moving files and editing to match what is showing in Screenshots and still same result and as you can see they are not same show or same episode titles. S
for confirmation… you have linked the folder which contains Blade 2012, Iron Man 2011, Wolverine 2011 and X-Men 2011 to the tv-show library?
have you moved those folders somewhere else, done a re-scan of the library, waited for it to complete, emptied trash/cache, waited for it to complete, moved the folders back to your tv show main folder, waited for it to complete and re-scanned the library once more?
PS: please also add the brackets to the show folder (e.g. Blade (2012) – it should match with the underlying episode names
I have done everything you said except adding the Brackets to show folder and I will move them again and do that all over again and we will see what happens but yes all of what you asked has been done and got same result minus the folders with show names having brackets.
As you can see I did as you suggested with bracketing year on folders and also it is still bracketed like in previous photos within the folder and I pulled all files from Plex and rescanned and emptied trash on all my libraries and waited for all to completely transfer from unknown folder to known folder and same result just different image and show title but all are stacked and clustered still.
I would also suggest a screenshot of the Get Info for the episodes of Wolverine that are each showing the 4 files matched. So we can see exactly what files are being matched.
and here you go…
If your tv show library is pointing to “G:\TV Ended”, this will give Plex the hiccups.
Plex expects no additional folders that don’t belong to the strict naming. Would you mind moving all the shows directly into the TV Ended folder and drop the Marvel (Anime) subfolder? This could already be it and fix your prob for good.
So Tom80H you’re saying make each show individual and not clustered into mass collection folder like the Marvel (Anime) folder and then do the removal and trash dump and add and add to plex again?
Correct.
Plex can deal with additional “cluster folders” for movies… it’s much more strict with tv shows. For those, it should always be <library folder> \ <show folder> \ <season folder, e.g. "Season 01"> \ <episode files>
The plex dance is still needed to make Plex forget that it had those files already (wrongly) associated with some other show
Well it seemed to work breaking them out of cluster folder and the only that needs to get done is the artwork for the Wolverine show because it showed before but it isn’t now. Thank you for the help and if I have any further issues I may come back to this post unless it closes before then.
Should the server update be asking me to download and install so many times? I have done it now 3 times since I fixed the show stacking issue with your help.
What do you mean with “Server Update”?
Plex telling you about a new version available to download or to automatically update?
I believe there’s been a number of updates within the last week – 3 since you posted 10 minutes ago seem a little over the top.
However… today they have indeed released a new update to the public (v1.14.1):
Yes and mine is in a loop of downloading then installing and nothing is happening or updating in less it is in multiples of pieces like Windows does with it’s updates.
