Finally!! [image] No, just kidding. I would be really ashamed if my product had this kind of flaw. I mean come on Plex!? It’s 2022. Do I really still need to move files around to be able to have Plex forget them and start from scratch? Look, I’ve spent hours and hours doing the Plex Dance ™ in m…

[image] jaahasjoopajoo: What is the alternative way to “forget” a show and to let scanner add it like new? I would need a bit more info, like why do you want it to forget the show? I’m not sure what you’re doing that requires this.

[image] drzoidberg33: I would need a bit more info, like why do you want it to forget the show? I’m not sure what you’re doing that requires this. While an edge case and may not be what the OP was intending however this is one example I’m aware of when a plex dance on a TV Show is still requi…

I don’t get why a Plex Dance would be needed in this case.

When the online source was changed plex did pickup the episode order change, it only changed the played status. Force metadata refresh made no difference at the time. I periodically build a test plex server (side by side to my main server) so I can defect changes to the cloud metadata providers, t…

I don’t get it. If you’ve watched ep 6 and TheTVDB changes ep 6->8, 7->6, 8->7, your PMS should still have ep 6 as ep 6 and the watched status shouldn’t change. Are you saying PMS will update as well so your files now point to the wrong episode? Because it shouldn’t. Or are you saying you want i…

[image] anon18523487: If you’ve watched ep 6 and TheTVDB changes ep 6->8, 7->6, 8->7, your PMS should still have ep 6 as ep 6 and the watched status shouldn’t change. Plex does still have the episodes but for whatever reason the episode guid changed due to the reorder at the online site (tmdb…

I was about to start a new thread when I saw this one. I’m not sure if I’m reading some of the above posts right, but it sounds like some people think the Plex Dance has been made unnecessary somehow (at least for movies and TV), but that does not seem to be the case for me at least. I’ve been try…

OK - thanks - I’ll run some more tests that way and see what happens. {edit} Cool - that seems to work great, and saves several steps. I was just telling it to rescan the files rather than refresh the metadata - the latter works just fine - thanks so much!

OP here… Sorry, but I did not have the time to find out an example of when and where Plex Dance is still needed but today I discovered one such occasion, again. Last night the new scanner incorrectly matched a series. Real name of the series: “Rikospaikka” Incorrectly matched as: “Chicago Story” …

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anon18523487 January 10, 2023, 8:05pm 14

You shouldn’t need the Plex Dance for extras. Just refresh the metadata. If it’s not recognizing the files, that’s usually a filename issue. Please provide the exact filename you are using.

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