Rather than have Plex create a new folder in the TV Show or at the root of the TV Show folder, I would like to see an option to replace the existing file if I know it can safely be overwritten. I have several shows that need to be optimized, but I don’t want to have to go back in manually and copy t…

[Feature Request] Add option to Plex Optimizer to replace the existing files

tom80H Closed March 26, 2021, 12:51am 3

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate (self-reported)

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