Deleted TV Show not seen when trying to add it back in

Okay, so I’ve tried to search support but can’t find an answer or anything similar.

Anyway… I moved a show into the appropriate directory for TV Shows and let Plex scan it. It found it, but didn’t find any meta data. I don’t recall what happened next – exactly, but it went something like this – a few tries to get it to get the meta date – all failed. I decided that I’d try to change file names to get them to be read properly, so I deleted the show in Plex, not deleting the data, it advised that this action could not be undone, but I thought that was only a reference to the files if I deleted them… The problem is that no matter how I try, renaming the directory, the files, restarting the server, Plex just doesn’t see the directory or the files. I have verified that they exist and are playable…

Thanks in advance for any help.

I’m unclear on steps, have you actually moved the show folder and files outside of your main TV directory or just renamed them?

if you have not, please try these steps https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/277433/the-plex-dance#latest

TVDB has been knocked senseless for the last 20 hours - just now back online (for an unknown length of time).

That might have something to do with it.

If it don’t work now - with a Plex Dance® - might want to check here:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
If not done right TV Shows will be invisible…