I’ve been running my Plex Media Server for years, but when I first started using it, I really didn’t understand how things worked. I have several hundred movies where I didn’t include the year. I just used the movie name. For example, the filename for the movie “2 Guns” is simply 2 Guns.mp4 instead…

As long as the files are correctly recognized in your Plex library, there is no need to rename them. Because if you do, (particularly if you not only change their file name, but also their folder name), it can happen that Plex will treat it as a new addition to the library. Thus listing it among th…

Is there an easy way to rename media files?

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OttoKerner July 1, 2024, 5:57am 6

There is this, but it’s more suitable to renaming top level folders, or moving media around to other drives/file servers: [HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way - #10 by jelwell

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Is there an easy way to rename media files?

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