# Multi-episode naming now broken?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/multi-episode-naming-now-broken/881274>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-linux, server-docker, plex-web, library-management\
**Created:** [June 29, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multi-episode-naming-now-broken/881274 "2024-06-29T14:26:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![chiberia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@chiberia](https://forums.plex.tv/u/chiberia)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multi-episode-naming-now-broken/881274/14 "2024-06-29T15:33:55Z")

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Thanks for the advice. That was my backup method, but I wanted to avoid having to redo all my sharing/etc that were tied to the libraries themselves.

For anyone else finding this, I actually discovered an even faster way to do this for the entire library:

After moving your files out of your library, create a single, empty file (any file, I just happened to use the command `touch .empty`) in the folder. This tells Plex the folder is purposefully empty and allows the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) to work.

By creating something like a `.empty` file, you won’t impact any imports down the road if you forget to remove it.

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