Not scanning tv shows

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Scanning TV shows, only the first two mini-series are scanned in:

“Anne of Green Gables S01E01 (1985)”
“Anne of Green Gables S01E02 (1985)”

“Anne of Green Gables The Continuing Story (2000)” and
“Anne of Green Gables The Sequel (1987)”

are NOT scanned…

I checked on TVDB (where Plex is gets metadata) and it’s there, so is “Continuing Story”

Following naming structure from Plex is correct, s all other TV shows follow the same syntax: Title Season/Episode (Year). Its only these two…

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Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel looks to be listed as a movie on tvdb. Do you have it in your movie library?

Anne of Green Gables The Continuing Story looks to be season 03 of Anne of Green Gables (1985). This is in your TV library?

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In addition to the pointers by @MarkV1320 … the very basic answer:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201543057-why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found/

In your case it’s the basic “files named like a movie added to a tv-show library”.

If you specifically configure Plex to use TheTVDb as episode order for this show (or the library), the two sequels are listed as the two subsequent seasons. On TMDb (which tends to be Plex’s main source of information), it’s separate mini-series / shows.

Title TheTVDb (show) TheTVDb (movie) TMDb (show) TMDb (movie)
Anne of Green Gables (1985) season 1: “Anne of Green Gables” movie mini series movie
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987) season 2: “Anne of Avonlea” movie mini-series movie
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000) season 3: “The Continuing Story” movie mini-series movie
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008) season 4: “A New Beginning” movie [not listed] movie

The movies on TMDb are also grouped as a collection.

As for naming in general:

  • if you include the year a show 1st aired as an additional matching hint, add that info straight next to the show title (e.g. Anne of Green Gables (1985) - s01e01)
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THank for the info, and i updated Sequel and Continuing Story to this:

Anne of Green Gables S02 The Sequel (1987)
Anne of Green Gables S03 The Continuing Story (2000)

They still don’t scan in.. Is this because on the TVDb their separate episodes, ,where as i only have them in one and two mkv files only? That would make sense because the first mini-series did scan in ok because ther are labeld E01 and E02. separate files.

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If you set the show to use the episode ordering of TheTVDb, naming should be like this:

TV Shows   <- the folder linked to your library
  Anne of Green Gables (1985)
    Season 02
      Anne of Green Gables (1985) - s02e01-e02.ext
    Season 03
      Anne of Green Gables (1985) - s03e01-e02.ext

This will result in Plex listing both episodes, both pointing to the same file. Alternatively you could also just name it as s02e01 to keep it to a single record in your season

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Looks like it worked thx..

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