I added a couple of movies to my library this morning. Before I rescanned my library I had 1802. After it completed I had 1799. I didn’t delete any so I’m wondering is there a quick way to see what files the media scanner removed so I can find out what happened to the files?
Easy - unfortunately not.
You can try and inspect the log files - if debug logging was activated when you updated your library.
Other than that:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201543057-Why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found-
@OttoKerner said:
Easy - unfortunately not.
You can try and inspect the log files - if debug logging was activated when you updated your library.Other than that:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201543057-Why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found-
I kinda figured. Unfortunately, I don’t know if it’s a discrepancy or not, because I have several movies with multiple versions in my library. I just wanted to know what titles it removed so I could see if the files were possibly deleted by my NAS operating system during an update.
@trumpy81 said:
If your NAS is deleting files you have a much bigger problem, like a failing hard drive for example.
True. Although a 12 drive RAID6 wouldn’t pick and choose which files to delete.
However, I did find one movie that Plex (all of a sudden) chooses not to recognize. The only thing I can see that’s any different about it is that the file name has an exclamation point in it.
Maybe a Plex developer can chime in and see if the latest update doesn’t like exclamation points in the file name?
@trumpy81 I just browsed the forum and see others are having similar issues. Something in the last update caused this.
It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with punctuation. It’s picking titles at random.
What you’re gonna want to pay close attention to is how many movies you had before the scan and how many after.
I don’t know if these will be good. I guess I opened instead of saving the log right after this all happened.
I think I see the problem.
Look up “Leap! (2016)” on themoviedatabase.com.
You’ll notice it doesn’t exist. If you look it up on imdb, it comes up BUT says it was originally called “Ballerina”
I have a few titles like this… But I don’t remember which one’s they are. I bet if I figure out which ones they are I’ll find my missing movies.
Plex has changed something in this last update that now ignores titles that don’t have a match on tmdb.com.
@trumpy81 I just want them to undo whatever they did in the last update. Everything was fine prior to that.
The example I gave above is the issue. If this is what the developers want to implement then at least create a dump file that clearly shows what titles PMS couldn’t match.
My guess here is that you had several movies that could not be matched before like Leap. PMS just included these as unmatched and left them that way. As our metadata backend gets updated, it’s possible those movies are now getting matched to something, and probably to something you already have in your collection, so it merged them as 1, resulting in the total count to go down. Change the view to “Duplicates”. This will show all movies with more than 1 file. Double check that all of these are correct.
@“MovieFan.Plex” said:
My guess here is that you had several movies that could not be matched before like Leap. PMS just included these as unmatched and left them that way. As our metadata backend gets updated, it’s possible those movies are now getting matched to something, and probably to something you already have in your collection, so it merged them as 1, resulting in the total count to go down. Change the view to “Duplicates”. This will show all movies with more than 1 file. Double check that all of these are correct.
Hmmm… You’re right! Here is an example of a movie that was combined that shouldn’t have. The titles are clearly separate in tmdb.
Is your library pointed to M:\DVD MKV Transcodes\Movies (H.264)
or just M:\DVD MKV Transcodes ?
The latter would be very bad.
And “Death Pool” was officially released in 2017.
@OttoKerner said:
Is your library pointed toM:\DVD MKV Transcodes\Movies (H.264)
or justM:\DVD MKV Transcodes?
The latter would be very bad.And “Death Pool” was officially released in 2017.
Death Pool (2017) - IMDb
My path is exactly like it says. M:\DVD MKV Transcodes\Movies (H.264)\
According to tmdb (the official Plex database as far as I know), it’s 2016. I copy / paste all my titles directly from the website.
@kd6icz said:
According to tmdb (the official Plex database as far as I know), it’s 2016. I copy / paste all my titles directly from the website.
Plex uses primarily IMDb. (By means of the Plex Movie agent) (Which metadata agent is your default?)
TMDB is user-populated. It can always contain errors.
@OttoKerner said:
Plex uses primarily IMDb. (By means of the Plex Movie agent) (Which metadata agent is your default?)
TMDB is user-populated. It can always contain errors.
sigh. So much misinformation. Ok. So imdb? I read months ago on these forums it was TMDB. I used to use imdb and switched when I read it was the other guy.
So… If it’s imdb, why didn’t it find Leap!? It’s labeled properly on imdb…
@kd6icz said:
sigh. So much misinformation. Ok. So imdb? I read months ago on these forums it was TMDB. I used to use imdb and switched when I read it was the other guy.
It all depends which metadata agent you are using in your library.
If you choose ‘Plex Movie’, it is the IMDb.
But you can also choose to use the TMDB agent.
So… If it’s imdb, why didn’t it find Leap!? It’s labeled properly on imdb…
Try naming it as “Ballerina (2016)” instead
@OttoKerner said:
TMDB is user-populated. It can always contain errors.
And always changes.
@kd6icz
One thing you can do is look at the status screen from PlexWeb. This should work if you don’t manually update the library and let Plex pick up the new movie(or deleted movie). It gives 50 pages worth of stats.
@NewPlaza So I guess it’s too late at this point. All I can do is continue to dig through the duplicates and see what files it lumped together.
Speaking of “duplicates”, @MovieFan.Plex are we ever going to have the ability to label our “Play Version” instead of just guessing which one is which? I have 40+ movies with two or even three versions of the same movie (Theatrical, Unrated, Extended, Directors Cut).
@kd6icz said:
@NewPlaza So I guess it’s too late at this point. All I can do is continue to dig through the duplicates and see what files it lumped together.
Yeah. That sucks. You may be able to use Duplicate Movie Finder for Plex.
It’s a bit aged. I haven’t updated it in eons but should work for you. It will list all dups and file paths. That will clearly show you if two(or more) movies share the same movie ID but have completely different file names.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/107752/duplicate-movie-finder-for-plex-windows
