Extended and original media files of same film keep falling under same Poster

Plex Media Server
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Hi,

I have 2 different versions of the same film. A extended 2 file part version and the original
version. The extended version is labeled as such with an appended Film Name (Ext.) - pt1 and Film Name (Ext.) - pt2 with the 2nd file being the original length file being just Film Name. The problem is they are both being stacked under the same Poster for the Extended version and I can’t unstack or separate out the file in PLEX because that would separate the 2 extended files. I was wondering how do I get the original to appear in a Poster by itself.

Server Version#: 1.27.2.5929

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Are they in separate movie folders? I just tried and it Split Apart kept the two parts that are in one folder together stayed into one film and the other into a single.

/Movies/Lord of the Rings Extended/Lord of the Rings Extended Part 1.mkv
/Movies/Lord of the Rings Extended/Lord of the Rings Extended Part 2.mkv
/Movies/Lord of the Rings/Lord of the Rings.mkv

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You’ll have to split them all apart, then select the two extended version parts and merge them back together.

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The extended film is in its own folder with film name under the movies directory and naming convention to merge those two parts but the shorter film is located directly in the movies directory without a sub folder

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you should put everything in own folder

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Here’s an example with original and colorized versions of a movie. You can modify to work with extended releases.

Also, for the extended release, consider combining the files. Not all Plex clients like stacked movies.

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Are you sure that still works? Last time I attempted that it didn’t. It was a while ago so maybe it works now.

Once you split apart the second one becomes unmatched and then regardless of what locked fields you use when the next scan is done on the library it auto matches and merges them again. As the GUID is the same after matching its then merged.

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I just tested it again and it still works. Re-scanning the library or refreshing metadata did not re-combine them. Running PMS 1.27.2.5929/Synology DS918+.

That did not happen for me. When I change the library view to Unmatched it is empty.

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Interesting, thanks. It’ll look at this again.

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We support having the same guid so splitting should work. Don’t remember when this was added, but it’s been a while.

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Might have something to do with the fact I include a matching id in the folder name, it might have caused some issues when I attempted it a while ago. Anyhow, thanks for confirming this should be working.

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