Hi. I have more than 8.000 movies collected and identified in my PLEX server library. Each movie file is stored in its own separated folder. Each folder contains a .nfo file with the corresponding IMDB id to let PLEX identify the movie properly.
Ok. The thing is that there are 5 movie files that PLEX is missing from my collection, and I don’t know how to add again those movie files into my library without entirely deleting the library to start from scratch.
The movie files are in the directory that PLEX scans for movies, but the movies are missing / not added / not show in my library.
The reason why PLEX is missing those 5 movies even when I have the .nfo file with the ids, it is because due human errors I did some mistakes in the past writing wrong ids in the .nfo file, so PLEX identified those movie titles as other different titles, and I ended deleting those wrong identified movies from my library after writing the proper id in the .nfo file, and expecting that after the id change did in the nfo file PLEX will add again the movies to my library and identify them with the right movie title… but that never happened.
I tried to delete bundles and re-scan for file changes and all that. I just can’t see anymore those lost 5 movies in my library.
And I really don’t remember exactly which 5 movie files they are, because this issue is from months ago.
Thanks but where do you mean I’ll search for that?
The tool you linked would be a nightmare. If I want that tool to help me then I must select to export ALL LEVELS because I need the filepaths inside the CSV to check for missing ones from my disks, but that program takes like 1 second to retrieve all levels of a single title in the database. It will take around 2:30 hours for 8000 movie titles. And with that generated CSV list I must code a script to search for missing filepaths from my disk within the CSV list, and when I can finally find them I imagine that I should do the “PLEX dance” with those missing files…
But really, it will took less time and effort to just delete the entire PLEX folder from my drive and generate the entire library again from scratch, although at the cost of an infinity of read and write operations of my files by plex, which I prefer to avoid, and that’s why I’m looking for a simple solution to avoid generating the library from scratch.
I have a similar problem, but I don’t have NFOs in mine… just the movie file in each folder. Some folders aren’t being scanned in for whatever reason… it could be from needing to be extracted, to it being a TV show and not a Movie, or just empty folder even. (I check for duplicates all the time, so that’s not it). So I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to figure out which folders aren’t housing movies. If the Folder View had more options to show what is in each one without having to click on every folder, and also the ability to sort to see if there is Scanned Media (YES/NO column), it would be way easier to figure out why these folders aren’t getting scanned in.
Since you didn’t specify OS of your PMS, and if on Linux, or running as a service on Windows, also be rights related, so also check folder/File rights/ownership
