Normally I keep my TV shows in a folder called /series and in that folder I got a folder for every TV Show. In that folder I keep the files directly, but also sometimes the files in a own folder (often named as the file). This works well mosty.
I have a show we can call “name” and I kept it in /series/name. All was good. But for different reasons, I had to move most of the files to /series/name/name but I also kept some files in /series/name. By doing that, it was like Plex didn’t get that there was files in /series/name.
I then moved back to keeping all in /series/name but got one episode directly in that folder, but also in a separate folder, named like the file. It was an episode in a better video quality, and I want Plex to index both versions, being able to “play version”. The naming is correct of the files, with S01E01, but Plex will now not index the file /series/name/“folder with episode name”/“file with episode name” but only the first version.
But, if the first folder after /series/ is recognized as a show, then everything in it, with file structure as “name.S01E1.something.avi” will be scanned, right? Even though that file is in a folder?
This is only an example. The important bit in the file name is the appropriate season and episode number notation s02e17 which in this example means Season 2 Episode 17 It does not matter if you use dashes, dots or just spaces.
And I got the s02e17 for both files. And Plex gets other shows with some files directly in the folder, and some files in folders named as the file.
That’s why I ask if Plex may skip the file in the separate folder since there’s already a file with the same episode, instead adding it to be two versions?
If you have duplicate versions, add them into the same season folder as the other version. Add some distinguishing info in square brackets at the end of the file name.
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