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→ Naming & Organizing Your Movie Files
→ Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files
Resetting permissions cleaned up the “permission denied” errors.
You now need to clean up your media naming and organization. The TV show structure is especially poor.
Read the Plex documentation and rename your shows and movies to match Plex naming requirements.
After renaming/reorganizing, perform a Plex Dance for each show. The Plex Dance clears incorrect information from the Plex database. It increases the probability of correct matching after renaming media.
Some examples from your log files are below. The TV Shows were all flagged with “failed to download metadata.”
There are automated tools to help with the process, such as Filebot, tinyMediaManager, or Microsoft PowerToys PowerRename tool (for simple pattern matches).
It takes additional work, but correctly naming and organizing media up front pays dividends later.
Example: Black Hawk Down:
Current: .../Films/Black Hawk Down (2001) 1080p HEVC x265 (Retail NL Subs).mkv
Correct: .../Films/Black Hawk Down (2001)/Black Hawk Down (2001) [1080p HEVC x265 Retail NL Subs].mkv
Placing a movie in its own directory speeds up scanning when adding additional movies.
Put resolution, etc information inside square brackets. Plex will ignore it and not try to match it to online data sources.
Example: Grey’s Anatomy
/volume1/Media/Series/Grey's Anatomy Seizoen 17/Greys.Anatomy.S17E01.All.Tomorrows.Parties.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-TOMMY NL subs retail/YMMOT-462.H.1.5PDD.LD-BEW.NZMA.p0801.seitraP.sworromoT.llA.10E71S.ymotanA.syerG.mkv
/volume1/Media/Series/ <-- Folder added to library
.../Grey's Anatomy (2005) <-- show_name (year)
....../Season 17 <-- "Season" in English, two digits for number
........./Grey's Anatomy (2005) s17e01 All Tomorrow's Parties.mkv <-- sXXeYY mandatory
Example: Hawkeye
Incorrect: /volume1/Media/Series/Hawkeye seizoen 1/Hawkeye S01E01.mkv
Correct: /volume1/Media/Series/Hawkeye (2021)/Season 01/Hawkeye (2021) s01e01.mkv
Example: Rules of Engagement
All of season 3 & 4 are like this. Not sure how Plex is supposed to match 0a6fe985c09b436a897fe382885cea7a.mkv.
/volume1/Media/Series/Rules of Engagement/Seizoen 3/Rules.of.Engagement.S03E01.1080p.WEB.X264-EDHD/0a6fe985c09b436a897fe382885cea7a.mkv
