Server Version#: 1.25.2.5319 Player Version#: not sure how to find =\ I’ve never had any issues with adding movies to my library. Now I am having trouble getting a certain movie series to show up, its 6 movies, all in the same folder, and plex does recognize the first movie, but not all 5 that ar…

Plex Documentation → Your Media → Naming & Organizing Movie Files Please show how you have the movies named and organized, including the path and file extension. Follow Plex naming requirements. Put each movie in its own folder. If using the new scanner/agent, add the IMDB or TMDB ID to th…

Movies are named and organized like this: D:\Movies\Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-17) [Complete] + Extras (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 SAMPA) - Then I have the files in the folder named as such MSG The Origin 1 Blue-Eyes Casval, MSG The Origin 2 etc all the way up to 6. They are .m…

[image] wolventhrone: D:\Movies\Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin (2015-17) [Complete] + Extras (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 SAMPA) - Then I have the files in the folder named as such MSG The Origin 1 Blue-Eyes Casval, MSG The Origin 2 etc all the way up to 6. That’s not going to work. …

They are Original Video Animations, they are 80 some minutes long so to me they are movies. Im honestly so lost man, i’m not very good with this type of stuff.

[image] Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I - Blue-Eyed Casval (2015) - IMDb Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I - Blue-Eyed Casval: Directed by Takashi Imanishi, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. With Mayumi Tanaka, Megumi Han, Jin Urayama, Banjô Ginga. Universal Century 0068, Side 3 - The Autonomous Repub…

I found one. This works on my server: /movies/Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin I - Blue-Eyed Casval/Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin I - Blue-Eyed Casval.mkv : is not a legal character for a file name, so just leave it out. Plex Dance the movie after renaming it. [image] Mobile Suit Gundam:…

Empty the trash in Plex. The Plex Dance removes prior traces of the movie from the Plex database. It makes it like you are adding the movie for the first time.

Got it! working on it now, ill let you know how it goes.

AYEEEE totally worked! Thanks so much for helping me through this process my dude! ps. I drive a ford ;]

Having a hard time getting plex to recognize certain movies

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wolventhrone January 7, 2022, 9:24pm 8

Nice! So for the plex dance, It says to empty trash, is that in plex or in windows?

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Having a hard time getting plex to recognize certain movies

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