Another feature request! I spend hours downloading, extracting, renaming and copying files to my Plex Server. What would same me a lot of time and hassle would be having a handy auto-rename and store function. Essentially All you would have to do is copy a file, with all the appropriate …

Another feature request! I spend hours downloading, extracting, renaming and copying files to my Plex Server. What would same me a lot of time and hassle would be having a handy auto-rename and store function. Essentially All you would have to do is copy a file, with all the appropriate informati…

The entire reason the files need to be renamed is so that Plex (or, more to the point, the scanning-agent destinations) can recognize the files correctly. It seems to me that if it was smart enough to know what they were -- for sure -- it would not need them to be renamed.

I understand what you are asking, but there is a great tool that already does that: couchpotato. It will handle the renaming very effectively in a way that will make Plex happy. It will make directories, list missing episodes and anything else you can imagine. Plex is very clever, but it should …

Plex is very clever, but it should not have to rename your files for you when there are tools out there that handle that very effectively. And to add....I think it's against Plex policies to alter User files, thus why everything is kept in their own storage (Library & Database) /Tommy

Feature Request - Upload & Auto-Organise

Feature Suggestions

tom80H Closed May 23, 2021, 12:15am 6

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

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Request: Auto-Organize & Rename Feature Suggestions	6	146	June 10, 2021
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Plex File Renamer Feature Suggestions server-windows	2	173	June 20, 2022
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Feature Request - Upload & Auto-Organise

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