Media not showing

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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I have had to AGAIN re-install plex on ubuntu and my movie files are showing fine but my tv shows are a NO GO… Not sure whats going on again. Not sure why. Can someone please help me to find out whats going on here. I have even tried a chmod for the directory where they are located but they again are not showing. Thanks again for the help in advance.

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Classic issues to check are:

  1. permissions → is the local plex account able to see the files in the folder linked to your library?
  2. chmod on its own might not be sufficient if you’re e.g. mounting a folder from an external drive with default configurations.
  3. file naming → have you named those tv episodes according to Plex naming schema (incl. the required folder structure)? Plex will ignore videos that don’t have a pattern/segment providing season/episode number information

for #1 and #2 I strongly recommend to check out the Linux tips & tricks:

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Shown here the file does show but shows with a \ in the title

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however, it does not have the \ when you look at it via the FTP server. shown here:

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odd that the movie folder is working 100% but the tv shows one is being a bit of a pain…
but any tips are appreciated.

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That \ is just the escape character indicating that the subsequent space is still part of the file name.
Given the example snippet, my money is on poor file names.
Plex expects your tv shows to follow their naming schema:

TV Shows   <- the folder linked to your TV Shows library
  Airwolf
    Season 01
      Airwolf - s01e12.avi

The critical part: It’s sXXeYY – not seXXepYY!


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Interesting. It did in fact work. Thank you for that… Is there a way to BATCH name change them so I don’t have to do 74 of them each 1 at a time?

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FileBot – The perfect tool for renaming perfectly so there are no issues.

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