Update: Everything is working correctly now!
Here are the changes I made:
- I pointed the library at the “Trek” folder, which contains the show folders, and isn’t named “Star Trek” anymore to avoid confusions
- I renamed the show folders with the official show names and years. Instead of “Star Trek TOS” I named it “Star Trek (1966)” and instead of “Star Trek TNG” I named it “Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)”
- I kept the season folder structure, with each show folder containing the seasons in folders with the name “Season XX”
- I changed the file names so they begin with the full show name (no date) and use this format: Show Name - SXXEXX - Episode Name.mkv
- I followed the directions to do the “Plex Dance”
To be frank, I don’t know which of these steps are necessary and which are not, but I suspect the most important were steps 2 and 5. Especially 5. I realize that until I did the “Plex Dance”, Plex was maintaining the old metadata that was WRONG , despite anything that I changed.
Regardless, my issue is now SOLVED! Plex now sees all 7 seasons of TNG and all 3 seasons of TOS!
Thank you to everyone who contributed. Check out this article if you want to know more about using the mmv command:
It meant that renaming all my files took me about 20 minutes instead of several hours, and that includes getting used to how the command worked. I did have to do it manually within each season folder, but that was only 10 folders, and the Terminal’s ability to quickly recall recent commands makes it much less tedious than it would otherwise be.
BOTTOM LINE(S):
Point Plex to the folder which contains (exclusively) your show folders
Use the real, full show name on both the show folders and files
Do the Plex Dance or else Plex won’t actually rebuild the library metadata.
