I’m really hoping someone can make quick sense of the logs and tell me what might be going on here. My “TV Shows” library is acting very strange. Among other things, for certain series, every time I manually match it and rescan the library, it shows up again as being unmatched. In this case, in thetvdb.log, I had manually matched the media with ID# 1919615, did a library rescan, and it showed up on the rescan unmatched as ID# 1921692. Local media assets are disabled for the agent, and the storage is all local.
Not sure if it’s related, but for context, this library is also a little strange, in that it hasn’t noticed file changes for partial scans for a long time (which is why I always need to do a full re-scan). It also just seems to ignore some folders completely. I don’t know if the DB is just corrupt, if it’s fighting with the filesystem, or what.
Thanks for the help. This has been going on for a while but I’ve just gotten around to digging into it with all this time at home.
Thanks for the response! Would that wreak havoc across the entire library? I’ve got a mix of folders where I keep an original structure and then an organized structure with hardlinks. What I was specifically trying to nail down here was this specific season of The League (despite it being in the disorganized location… but it’s also not scanning it in the organized location, either). I didn’t think it should be unmatching it every library scan after being explicitly matched. But could the disorganized folders just be breaking the the scanner completely and causing all of these random issues?
Basically, I know how the file naming is supposed to go and have been retroactively working to organize it given limited free time, so in some cases I expect that automatic scanning will be broken. But in this particular case, I was assuming that was unrelated.
I would create a new library and only put stuff in it not named in Klingon. <—this will ‘eventually’ be your TV Show Library. As you fix and delete stuff out of the other one, it’ll simply vanish one day.
There may be something amiss, but who could tell with names like that?
You start having explosions in a library with compliant material and then finding something wrong will be a LOT easier.
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Totally fair suggestion. I’ve got a different library that ONLY has the organized folders, and it works as expected. I’m definitely just trying to force the square-round peg in the round hole here to avoid forcing myself to do manual work. Maybe best case scenario, this is an edge case where everything is just breaking down and maybe there’s a bug but also nobody should do this.
I’ve got a fresh new FileBot license. Super useful, it just won’t magically un-garbage everything.
Well, that’s excellent and also illustrates:
if your files are so messed up Filebot can’t fix 'em - they’re messed up real good.
Be proud, or embarrassed, but either way - fix 'em.
