Different Shows Being Combined into "Season" Button

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I am new to whole Plex arena, so I apologize if this is a stupid problem - but I am pulling out what little hair I have left…

I have very carefully organized some TV Shows as instructed per the Plex guidelines. To provide very specific examples, I have:
TV Shows / Manifest / Season 1 / Manifest - S01E12.mkv
TV Shows / Westworld / Season 1 / Westworld - S01E09.mkv
TV Shows / Westworld / Season 1 / Westworld - S01E10.mp4

I would expect that I went into the PlexApp and clicked on TV Shows, I would see options for Shows - so I would get a button for Manifest and a separate button for Westworld. But I don’t get that - I just get a single button that says “Tv Shows, 1 season”.

If I click on that button, I find another single button called “Season 1, 3 episodes”

If I click on that button, I see all three episodes right next to each other - S01E09, S01E10, and S01E12. BUT - two of those are Westworld, and one is Manifest. AND - all of them have Westworld thumbnails. No amount of Refresh Metadata fixes this…

I thought the whole point of organizing the data into folders per the TVDB naming convention was to separate the shows into… well… shows. But all of my Season 1 files - regardless of what show they come from - are all getting mushed into a single icon…???

I would expect a hierarchy like: TV Shows --> Shows --> Seasons --> Episodes
BUT - what I am getting is: TV Shows --> Seasons --> Episodes (regardless of show…)

I have searched the forum, and I have danced the PlexDance more times than I can count - no joy.

Any help with this? Please?!?

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Edit your tv show library,
go to the ‘Add Folders’ tab
which path is listed there?

It must only be /TV Shows – not one folder level above or below.
i.e. you must not add the tv shows by their individual folders.

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Perfect - it was the “not one folder level above” that was the problem. I had both my Movie and TV Show libraries pointed at the folder above - which was not a problem for Movies, but seems to have been the source of my TV Show issues. I repointed them to one level down (actually AT the Movies and TV Shows folder, respectively), and now everything looks just like I would have expected…!

THANK YOU!!!

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