Movies not getting added to Plex

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Plex Documentation → Your Media → Naming and organizing your Movie files

Your file naming.

  • Lose the dash between the movie name and year.
  • Place resolution, codec, etc information inside square brackets.
  • You can leave out the question mark. It is an illegal character for Windows file names (saves you some trouble if you ever move such files to a Windows system).

Try:

/Movies
.../Who's Minding the Store (1963)
....../Who's Minding the Store (1963).mkv

or, if using Plex Movie scanner & agent:

/Movies
.../Who's Minding the Store (1963) {imdb-tt0057683}
....../Who's Minding the Store (1963) {imdb-tt0057683}.mkv

If you want to keep the other info in the file name, place it in square brackets. Plex ignores information inside square brackets.

/Movies
.../Who's Minding the Store (1963) {imdb-tt0057683} [1080p.yada.yada.yada]
....../Who's Minding the Store (1963) {imdb-tt0057683} [1080p.yada.yada.yada].mkv

Lastly, you’ll need to Plex Dance the movie after renaming/reorganizing. This will remove any incorrect matching information from the Plex Media Server database.

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Ignore length of movie. I’m using a small test file, as I do not have the movie in my library.
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