I am doing some reorganization of my media library and I have the need to relocate specific shows from one folder to another. I added the new folder to the media library. I then simply moved the show in question to the new location and re-scanned the library. Most everything seems right but I notice plex is rescanning for intros on the show I moved. My watched/unwatched status stayed the same so it surprises me it is rescanning. Can anyone explain that and/or is there something in this procedure I missed?
If the file path is changing, the actual files may have changed as well.
Which could mean that the old intro scan may be off. That’s why a new scan is triggered.
Is that likely when they are getting “cut and pasted” to a new folder on the same volume?
Can you confirm there is nothing more the to proper procedure than what I did? Assuming that is the case I will not worry about it.
Plex cannot know that, as it happens outside of its control.
I’d copy the files first,
then scan,
then verify they’ve been recognised correctly, (as duplicates of the existing files)
then delete the source files,
scan again,
then empty trash in Plex.
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Thanks and will do!
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