is there a way to show me my missing tv shows ?

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i started looking for a way to audit my TV show library to look for missing episodes or seasons of shows.

What i’m looking for is something to scan my library and say “hey you only have episodes 1,2,4,5,6” where is episode 3? if you know what i mean?

i found something called WebTools but that doesent seem to help, and also i found a utility called “findmissing” which i assumed would do what i wanted but only says “all is good…no files are missing” when i know for a fact i have a fair few files missing.

has anyone else got any other suggestions?

the reason for this is because i had a HDD failure and lost about 20% of my tv shows and i have no idea which ones were lost without checking every single folder and series one at a time.

many thanks

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I have plenty of TV Show episodes and to be honest losing them isn’t really a problem.

The ONLY way a TV Show episode can get lost in the woods if it’s named/structured wrong.

Bring all your TV Show Library items into compliance and you won’t have any episodes leaving the ethereal plane in which we live.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/categories/200028098-Media-Preparation
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows

A TV Show Library/
…TV Show Name/ <— as it appears at TVDB
…Season 01/
…TV Show Name - S01E01 - Episode Name Optional.xxx
…TV Show Name - S01E02.xxx

I have 10s of thousands of episodes and even if they won’t match (for some reason) they’re all visible.

FileBot can really cut down the labor on a TV Show Library Fix - and I mean REALLY.
link in my signature.

FileBot could rename and restructure every single SG-1 Season Folder and Episode for all 10 Seasons in about 2 seconds - is that easy enough?

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i currently use Tiny Media manager to rename and sort all my files for plex, its a godsend!

but i had to recover my hard drive, 7tb and it was full, only managed to recover around 5tb so i have a lot of random episodes and series which are completely missing (as in the physical file has been deleted) . it would be a nightmare for me to track them down.

i will take a look at filebot :slight_smile: see what that does, is it similar to tiny media manager?

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If you are confident with php + webserver, maybe sth like this helps you: https://github.com/taylorhakes/Plex-TV-Analyzer

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