I’m having trouble with moving Movies from one location to another. This has only started happening very recently and I’m confused and annoyed because it used to work so well. It used to be that when I moved a bunch of movies from one drive to another plex would recognize that I had the same movie…

Duplicate Movies While Moving Files.

OttoKerner September 5, 2017, 6:34am 2

Did you change the default metadata agent of your library, before this started?
e.g. from “Plex Movie” to “TheMovieDatabase” or vice versa?

How does Plex Server define duplicate movies?

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