I have X number of films on my System. When I scan with Kodi, the exact path, I get X matches. When I scan with Plex, I get X, minus 30 matches. I suspect my filenames are the problem. I’d like to fix this but I don’t know how? Where’s the log showing "These files, didn’t scan right?)

Do you have collections enabled? How are you naming your files?

I don’t know what collections means. Generally filename is moviename (year).ext Sometimes, for very particular files it’s (IMDB Code like TT231232) .Ext (etc) I know how to name my files, I have over 2000, it’s a small handful which are the problem. I have discovered 19 of my movies will never…

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I have been messing around all morning and nuked several duplicated movies as well as extremely obscure things (Korean Anime Shorts, etc… I can account for 16x “Video_TS.IFO” files. I’m still looking at 2147 Kodi movies vs 2120 Plex movies. (2136 including the DVDs it’s let me know it refuses t…

How do I identify films which 'scanned wrong'?

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OttoKerner December 30, 2018, 1:45pm 5

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How do I identify films which 'scanned wrong'?

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