Plex iOS Download feature is unusable as it does not ever complete a download

[hawkinsb]

@Fullmakt

About half way through the video is a good example of what’s going on. The download completes of an episode, and immediately restarts downloading the same episode. This normally happens FIVE times for EACH episode, causing bandwidth usage to be 5x of what is should be, and making downloads of multiple episodes take 5x longer time.

You can watch the episode already after the first download “pass”, so why does it continue to download it 4 times needlessly?

Had this same issue in another thread and found a cause.

Plex for IOS infinite loop download problem (Feb 27 feedback problem, many users have confirmed the same problem, we paid for it, but it can't be used normally for a few months, please PLEX respond to this problem.)

I was having this issue in another thread, and we figured out that it was because I have the Seasons option set to “hide” for my TV library. [image] If you change this to “Show,” you have to do the following: Make sure the library is set to “Show” Make sure the individual shows within the library are set to “Show” (changing the library does NOT change all the shows – You have to edit the show and the option is under “Advanced”) [image] Delete all your downloads and start clean Whe…