# Issue with Plex Serie Scanner

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/issue-with-plex-serie-scanner/165126>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [October 29, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/issue-with-plex-serie-scanner/165126 "2016-10-29T22:09:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/issue-with-plex-serie-scanner/165126/5 "2016-10-30T07:43:21Z")

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What issue? What work around?

Plex Naming Guide:  
[https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows)

Nowhere I can find does the above documentation say it’s OK to inject into a file name a (YEAR) field where TVDB doesn’t require one. As clearly shown in your own link: [http://thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=72860&lid=7](http://thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=72860&lid=7) and after extrapolating from the somewhat ‘misty’ Plex documentation for this particular series the obvious end result would be:

A TV Show Library  
…Tom and Jerry  
…Season 1950  
…Tom and Jerry - S1950E08 - Cue Ball Cat.mp4

and having just placed a test file (named as shown) into the directory structure above I can report an instant, first time, fully populated match with TVDB and Plex.

![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/uploads/default/original/3X/7/1/71d632290712f948f803b4223b082ad6d1cf25f2.jpg)

TV Show Name - SXXXXEXX - Optional Information (YEAR).XXX

Ever the investigator and always curious how it is possible for folks to screw up a perfectly good file name I [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064)d the series I just placed after ‘screwing’ up the name just as @juherr has and found that Plex and TVDB have no problem with it and I got the same satisfying instant fully populated match I got before.

I can only assume:

1. @juherr was messing around with names while the item was inside the library and that threw Plex into it’s usual tail-spin. When renaming items that have already been indexed (or attempted anyway) it’s is recommended by most Doctors to remove the show from the library, update the library, clean bundles, empty trash, fix the name, replace the show, update the library and that would be called The [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064)®.  
[https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions) \<------- clean bundles, empty trash, update libraries

or

1. The Directory Structure @juherr is using is so screwed up Plex is totally lost and can’t do a thing but sit and spin…

🙂

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