Server Version#: 1.18.2.2058
Player Version#: not relevant
When I try to scan my library I end up getting 85 movies indexed out of 1100. I have tried several times with removing the library, adding it again, removing the files and moved them back again, empty trash and remove bundles. Nothing helps, always end up with 85 movies.
Can somone have a look at my log files?
Too big for pastebin/hastebin so here are dropbox links instead:
Plex Media Scanner.log
Plex Media Server.log
In a first step you might want to clean up your file names / folder structures… you’re giving Plex a pretty hard time with heavily deviating from the expected structures and naming Schemas.
This also goes for your poster/artwork subfolders.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/naming-your-movie-media-files/
Please also check out this support article… it gives some common causes for Plex ignoring files (e.g. mixing up movie/tv show libraries and file naming patterns)
So Plex doesn’t support the naming of scene releases? That was not what I was expecting. Renaming is not an option.
Is there any workaround? Plugin/nfo-file/manual?
I’m not exactly sure what you mean with „scene releases“.
There’s e.g. FileBot when it comes to mass-renaming files automatically.
I’d like to add that Filebot also gives the possibility to create hardlinks/symlinks in a separate location, instead of renaming the original files.
Sounds promising, I will have a look at this. Is it also able to handle rar files as all my movies are rar’ed?
No way.
Is it possible to let Plex scan the folder names instead of file names? All movies are in separate folders.
That’s already done anyway. But it requires the folder names to be named according to the Plex requirements Movie Title (year).
That doesn’t explain how I can get 85 movies into Plex. No movies are named that way, all are scene releases.
These are the rules
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/
If you don’t adhere to them, anything can happen, including erratic/unpredictable behaviour.
Took a deeper look now and at seems that non rar files get indexed by Plex, but no rar files. Plex doesn’t support rar files?
That’s what I meant above, when I told you “No way”.
Media must not be in archival containers like zip or rar. ISO or similar containers are not recognized as well.
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