Digimon shows not showing up

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So I have digimon Seasons 1-6 and my plex is only showing 1 and 5 and the Japanese exclusive movies. Season 2 shows up but it says that it’s season 1 as well and won’t even recognize season 3-5. Does anyone know what to do?

Oh also they are all in .avi format as well

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Best double-check your current season/episode structure against TheTVDB.com. They are only listing 5 seasons for Digimon: Digital Monsters:
デジモンアドベンチャー - TheTVDB.com

So for proper matching, the files should be organized like this:

TV Shows
… Digimon Digital Monsters
… … Season 01
… … … Digimon Digital Monsters - s01e01.avi
… … … Digimon Digital Monsters - s01e02 - optional episode title.avi
… … … …

That being said… there’s quite a number of spin-offs / reboots of that show… some of those might be published under the same title while TheTVDB.com has them broken down and hence the agent expects them that way:
Search - TheTVDB.com

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Don’t replace the colon : in the title with a different character, particularly not with a dash!
Simply leave it out.

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but would that labeling keep plex from recognizing that the folder was on my computer?

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one step at a time :wink:
when we have the basics working, we can dig into if Plex is e.g. merging the missing episodes with some of the other episodes (identified with a little blue square and a digit in the top-left corner of the respective episodes) or take a closer look at the episodes that actually aren’t found (ignored/missed/…).

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its ignoring them all together i think. for instance i have all my anime/ cartoons split into decades to start (8o’s,90’s, 2000’s ect.) and the digimon in the 90’s (season 1) is recognized fine, however in the 2000’s it shows two shows the first being a repeat of season 1 and then season 3. all of the seasons have there own folders since they are separate but it wont show up that they exist on the computer in plex.

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Plex is super strict when it comes to the organization of tv shows.
It only allows the structure defined in the naming conventions!

you’re set to run into trouble if you’re add more folders than required:

  1. top level: the folder added to your Plex library (e.g TV Shows)
  2. tv-show level: the name of the show as listed in TheTVDB.com (e.g. Digimon Digital Monsters) — optionally incl. the year the show first aired in brackets to avoid confusion (e.g. Game of Thrones (2011))
  3. season level: Season XX or Specials
  4. episode level: the actual episode files

No additional folders are supported!

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okay I did that and it worked for all but season two which I can’t find on theTVDB.com

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could it be season 2 is listed as a different show?
sorry… not an expert on that show but it appears there’s some redundancy when it comes to the different shows. it’s a little suspicious as they have overlapping timelines – so I suspect we ran right into one of the pitfalls of thetvdb.com community :wink:

check those out:

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Digimon does have a season 02
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/digimon-digital-monsters/seasons/2

‘Data Squad’ is season 05, btw.
You can see that on the posters which appear on TheTVDB for season 05.

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so i should put season 1 and 2 together then?

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actually – no.
can you show us a screenshot of how you’ve named the files in season 2?

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sure

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Thanks for sharing that picture.
Plex is ignoring those files because it doesn’t recognize them as tv episodes.

From the support article Why is some of my content not found?:

  • The TV scanners will skip content that is not named like a television

If you run into issues with content not being found, being ignored, or simply not matching well, the first thing you should do is to follow the naming and organization recommendations.

Related Page : Media Preparation

How to fix this

Step 1: Correct your folder structure and naming

Specific naming/structure for you…

  • IF your tv show library in Plex is linked to the Videos folder
    Videos > Digimon Digital Monsters > Season 02
  • IF your tv show library in Plex is linked to the 2000‘s folder
    Videos > 2000‘s > Digimon Digital Monsters > Season 02

No exceptions, no additions, nothing left away — this is important for Plex to recognize „what belongs where“.

Step 2: Fix your episode file names
Each individual episode file must match the naming schema expected by Plex. The schema for episode files looks like this:
<show name> - sXXeYY - <optional episode title>.ext
Where…

  • <show name> must match the show name defined in that show’s main folder
  • XX is the 2-digit season number
  • YY is the 2-digit episode number (within the season)
    ** both XX and YY could also have more than 2 digits if the show has 100 or more seasons/episodes respectively
  • <optional episode title> is for your personal use in the Explorer only. This information won’t be used by Plex. My personal tip… leave it away unless you absolutely depend on it
  • ext refers to the file extension

Specific example for your show:
The 1st episode in your folder Digimon Digital Monsters > Season 02 Should be named

or
Digimon Digital Monsters - s02e01 - Enter Flamedramon.avi

As above… no exceptions, no additions, nothing left away. Otherwise Plex will keep ignoring or misinterpreting your videos and structures.

Edit: accidentally posted this before the instructions were complete

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thanks for the help!

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I hope it worked and fixed your problem. :smiley:

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