I have some MKV movie files that are not showing in my library when I scan for files on my PC. This tends to happen when mujltiple files have similar names such as if a movie or TV episode is split into several parts. For example, if I had files named “movie part 1” and “movie part 2” in the same fo…

How to find the discrepancy between number of files on disk and the number of movies in the Plex movie library

Sorry, but no answer here. I have the same problem.

Let’s try to be more specific… Can you share what files (names) aren’t showing in Plex? As the post above points out, there’s a number of potential scenarios how this could happen: files following the tv-show naming convention will be ignored in movie libraries and vice versa poorly named movies…

Thanks fr the prompt reply. The files are: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 I did manage to “Split Apart”, but now I have two “Part 1” movies. The second one is really Part 2. I first tried putting them in separate folder, then I tried ren…

name them according to their official names incl. the year they have been released (as described in the related support articles on media preparation ): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010).ext Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011).ext You should also be ok by replac…

Thanks for the tip. When I started the rescan, part 2 briefly showed the 2011 date, but by the time the scan was completed, there are still two posters named “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”.

Thanks, I thought the Plex Dance was a bit of humor until I saw the thread. I have all my movie files on one HDD, and the OS and plex on another. The Movies HDD is mounted by OpenMediaVault, does taking the movies HDD offline satisfy the “move all files for the show out of ‘sight’ of Plex”?

[image] SteveRMann: Does taking the movies HDD offline satisfy the “move all files for the show out of ‘sight’ of Plex”? No. If a whole mount point of a library goes missing, Plex will consider it ‘temporarily unavailable’ and will simply do nothing. The same applies if a path that has been …

[image] OttoKerner: “move all files for the show out of ‘sight’ of Plex” Then, what’s the preferred way to “move all files for the show out of ‘sight’ of Plex”? OTOH, this is getting to be a mess, what would happen if I removed both movie files, rescan the folders, then replace the original …

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