Hi, I have a film file on the Plex server (win 10) and I cannot find it in the Plex db. How can I do a reverse-search, I mean searching how Plex catalog a phisical file giving to plex only the path and file name?
You can’t.
If PMS didn’t recognize it as valid, it won’t be indexed/cataloged .
What is the exact name you have for the file ?
Plex identify every single file and add it to its catalog as a preview box: the box is always created. It is a normal avi so Plex must create a box with a preview on it as usual but instead of searching through thousands of files in Plex db it is better to query the Plex db for the file name, that´s what I want to do…
The name of the file is not important, it can be for example “video.avi”
If PMS cannot match the name of the file to something it understands (Movie, TV episode, or Song) it will be removed. PMS has always worked this way.
If you would like, https://github.com/ukdtom/WebTools.bundle will allow you to cross check media versus database
Thanks for these tips. I will look through them.
