New Movies don't appear

Plex media server isn’t finding my .mp4 movies in my folders. It has found some movies in some folders but isn’t finding all of them for some reason. Also, I just added new movies to one subfolder but they don’t appear on Plex. I’ve tried but haven’t been able to find any solution to this problem.

“Subfolder” has me a little bit worried about how your directories and files are organized.

Your Library should point to a directory that contains all your movies.

Each movie should ideally be in a directory, “Moviename (Year)”.

Each movie should be named “Moviename (Year) [Extra notes in square brackets].ext”.

Can you share some examples of your directories and movie names?

There can be other challenges with permissions, or with tags/metadata embedded in MP4 files, but file naming and directory structure is the first thing to check for most people.

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