# Not detecting new episodes
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files
**Tags:** server-windows
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629 "2022-02-10T01:38:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@BainMac](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BainMac)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/1 "2022-02-10T01:38:19Z")
I can’t figure our why some new episodes aren’t detected correctly even though they have the same naming as the others. Some show up under “recently released”, but not when I enter the show. Any idea how to fix this?
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### Author:  [@Volts](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Volts)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/2 "2022-02-10T04:09:34Z")
> [@BainMac](#):
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> they have the same naming as the others
What’s that naming? Can you provide a screenshot or some of the actual Show folder, Season folder, and Episode file names?
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### Author:  [@Divideby0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Divideby0)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/3 "2022-02-10T06:27:04Z")
While we’re waiting for more info, do you also happen to have this show in multiple libraries? Like, for example, a TV DVR library for recorded shows, and the same show (earlier episodes) with all the commercials stripped and video re-encoded?
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### Author:  [@BainMac](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BainMac)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/4 "2022-02-10T11:55:57Z")
I’ve used the same naming structure as always, in this case: Australian Survivor - 9x01.
In a folder called Australian Survivor.
New episodes appear as recently added, but not under the show. I just sorted my tv show library, and Australian Survivor showes up as two different shows. I merged them and now they all appear correctly. Hopefully this will work on future episodes.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/5 "2022-02-10T13:00:08Z")
> [@BainMac](#):
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> I’ve used the same naming structure as always, in this case: Australian Survivor - 9x01.
This is Kodi-style, not Plex style: It _may_ work most of the time, until it eventually doesn’t. Officially supported is only this: [https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/)
> [@BainMac](#):
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> New episodes appear as recently added, but not under the show. I just sorted my tv show library, and Australian Survivor showes up as two different shows. I merged them and now they all appear correctly. Hopefully this will work on future episodes.
This sounds to me as if you recently converted your tv shows library to use the new agent, but failed to complete the conversion by Refreshing Metadata of the while library. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/migrating-a-tv-library-to-use-the-new-plex-tv-series-agent-scanner/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/migrating-a-tv-library-to-use-the-new-plex-tv-series-agent-scanner/)
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/6 "2022-02-11T17:44:53Z")
Hi, i have a almost similar issue. i try to add the Season “Landscapers” using the following name-convetiontion Mainfolder: Landscapers {imdb-tt11471892} - Subfolder: Season01 -Filenames: Landscapers - S01E01 - Episodename.mkv
The folder is added to plex but not shown in the libary or anywhere…
Did i make a mistake?
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### Author:  [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/7 "2022-02-11T17:48:34Z")
Most likely because Landscapers is show and not a movie and imdb ids are not good for shows. I would suggest renaming to `Landscapers (2021) {tmdb-113987}` or `Landscapers (2021) {tvdb-375516}` so the plex matching system can get it correct. Also confirm you have your media in a TV library and not a Movie library.
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/8 "2022-02-11T17:58:31Z")
> [@anon5074910](#):
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> Landscapers (2021) {tmdb-113987}
I tried both version and rename the folder and the files but it still not work.
the folder is a “series” and it workes fine for all the other series.
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### Author:  [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/9 "2022-02-11T18:02:53Z")
Could you [plex dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) it just to be sure. Might be something funky with the imdb being used previously which the dance should sort out.
If it’s still failing after that please upload a copy of your [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) so we can take a look.
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/10 "2022-02-11T18:08:07Z")
it works for 76 Series and now i should reset everything? i am not stupid!
It tooked days to altenate/correct the metadata for 1500 films, 3500 Dokumentations an manualy
this is not my failure, its an plex issue
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### Author:  [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/11 "2022-02-11T18:09:08Z")
No, just [plex dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) this one show. Not everything.
Also confirm it’s in a TV Library and not a movie library. TV shows will be ignored by plex if you have it in a movie library.
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/12 "2022-02-11T18:10:33Z")
but it will delete all metadata for the folder “Serie” where my series are insert
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/13 "2022-02-11T18:11:18Z")
the show isnt shown in the libary!!!
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### Author:  [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/14 "2022-02-11T18:12:02Z")
Okay, [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) please after running a scan of your libraries.
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/15 "2022-02-11T18:22:02Z")
i [plex dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) the folder but it dont worked.
here are my logfile
[Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-02-11\_19-19-46.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/1zs4oZnWG80smUGXZrtGjHKNSDS.zip) (6.4 MB)
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### Author:  [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/16 "2022-02-11T18:39:16Z")
Right so three things…
First, I can see in your logs the show is being scanned …
```auto
Feb 11, 2022 18:54:27.572 [0x7f2eb8ef1b38] DEBUG - Performing a scan with 'Plex TV Series' (language: de-DE virtual: 0).
Feb 11, 2022 18:54:27.572 [0x7f2eb8ef1b38] DEBUG - * Scanning /volume1/Serien/Landscapers (2021) {tvdb-375516}/Season 01
```
so all good there.
Second, I see you included the id in the filename …
`Feb 11, 2022 19:12:16.076 [0x7f2eb8b73b38] INFO - Library section 9 (Serien) will be updated because of a change in "/volume1/Serien/Landscapers (2021) {tvdb-375516}/Season 01/Landscapers (2021) {tvdb-375516} - E01E01 - Die Rückkehr.mkv"`
You should not do that and I wonder if that could be causing problems. Rename them like this `Landscapers (2021) - S01E01 - Die Rückkehr.mkv`
Third, and most importantly and this is most likely your issue the episode names have a typo in them. They are `E01E01` and should be `S01E01` which is most likely why plex is not seeing them.
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### Author:  [@michael\_s7](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michael_s7)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/17 "2022-02-11T19:01:46Z")
Now it worked. Thanks for your help. So it was in deed my fault!
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### Author:  [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/18 "2022-02-11T19:03:52Z")
Delighted it sorted.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/not-detecting-new-episodes/775629/19 "2022-05-12T19:04:51Z")
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