to the Animation Library. Plex recognize the movi files inside that folder with no issues at all. This is really new behaviour for my plex server I have been running it for few years now and with no issues with this structure at all
Also I have tried renaming the folders and mkv files to be like that
/cifs/Multimedia/Animation/English/Bolt (2008)/Bolt (2008).mkv
also didn’t work
Given your directory structure, add the English folder to the Plex library (not the individual movie folders).
You should also clean up naming as you did with Bolt.
After renaming & reorganizing, you may need to Plex Dance the movie. That will remove any incorrect matching information from the Plex Media Server database.
Thanks For reply, but just a clarification about the Englis Folder comment.
I do have separate Libraries, one for English Movies, English Animation etc.
I point the Media Library to the exact folder for example
English Movies → /cifs/Multimedia/Movies/English
English Animation – /cifs/Multimedia/Animation/English
Do I still needs to do the English first ? so it would be
/cifs/Multimedia/English/Movies (OR / Animation) ?
My “Movies” folder that I point Plex to contains subfolders for each movie.
I am not 100% certain, which is why I am asking for the clarification, but based on your first post it almost seems as if you are adding each individual movie folder in the section I show in the screenshot above. If that is what you are doing, as @FordGuy61 mentioned, you do not add the individual movie folders. You need to add the last folder right before where all the individual movie folders are held.
To clarify using your above example:
/cifs/Multimedia/Animation/English <-- "Parent" movie folder that should be added
/cifs/Multimedia/Animation/English/Angela’s.Christmas.2017.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DD+5.1.H.264-playWEB <-- Individual movie folder which should not be added
/cifs/Multimedia/Animation/English/Bolt (2008) <-- Individual movie folder which should not be added
I am not adding the individual folders
I have for movies for example 4 libraries
English Movies
English Animation
Arabic Movies
Arabic Animation
for Example English Animation is pointed to the location in the screenshot, and under that folder all the animation movies, and they were detected with no issues for years. All of a sudden now it is not being detected automatically, but If I added the specific movie folder to the list of folders it will be added to the library, but this means I will need to add each new movie to the library which doesn’t make sense.
Check permission for the newly added files. Make sure Plex has at least read-only access. Also, make sure you follow Plex naming recommendations.
If that does not help, then please do the following:
Stop Plex Media Server, wait one minute.
Start Plex Media Server, wait two minutes for Plex to fully start.
Plex Dance one of the movies that is not detected.
If it still does not appear, pull the Plex log files (Settings → Troubleshooting), and post the entire zip file to the thread. Also mention which movie you tried to add (it makes searching the log files easier).
