Duplicate set of actors and directors from newer matches

[tom80H]

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Plex have already commented on that some time ago. There’s been some changes in how they handle actors/directors (to the better) – refreshing the library’s metadata will fix this hiccup right away, otherwise you can simply wait for certain scheduled maintenance tasks to happen.

Plex is creating new/duplicate Tags for Directors and Actors that are already in my server

This is an expected side-effect of fixing a very old bug where we could not discern people with the same name and would always overwrite their data with the latest data from the most recently refreshed item. We now store people uniquely when adding new items or refreshing old items, but this won’t fix existing items until they are refreshed. We have also added checks that run at PMS startup and when running a database optimize that will correct duplicate items, so these things should self-corre…