Hello, i just installed plex and i am loving it but have kind of a newbee question. When setting up my libraries, will plex find my videos in a subfolder? Example I have my videos in B folder/Big Bang Theory/Season 1. If i set up plex to look in B folder, will it find the videos in the Season 1 fol…

Yes, it will. You might want to read through some of the articles in this Help section .

Thanks for the response. I did read the help section and couldn’t find anything about sub folders. My media is in the season 1 folder, when i set up plex to look in B/Big Bang Theory/ Season 1, it does not find the media, even when doing update library. Please help

You should follow the Plex Naming Guidelines for best results. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows /TV Shows /The Big Bang Theory /Season 01 The Big Bang Theory - S01E01 - Pilot,mkv The Big Bang Theory - S01E02 - The Bi…

You onl> @jreink01 said: My media is in the season 1 folder, when i set up plex to look in B/Big Bang Theory/ Season 1, it does not find the media, even when doing update library. You don’t point Plex to your Season 01 folder. You only point it to your TV Shows folder (in @Kraevin s example abo…

Use Filebot to rename your library to the correct format for movies and TV shows.

@OttoKerner said: You onl> @jreink01 said: My media is in the season 1 folder, when i set up plex to look in B/Big Bang Theory/ Season 1, it does not find the media, even when doing update library. You don’t point Plex to your Season 01 folder. You only point it to your TV Shows folder (in @K…

@rsava said: Is this the same for movies? I subdivide my movies like this: No. Movies are much more forgiving. But with TV shows you better aim for 100% compliance or you’ll find yourself in a world of hurt - sooner or later.

@Kraevin said: You should follow the Plex Naming Guidelines for best results. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows /TV Shows /The Big Bang Theory /Season 01 The Big Bang Theory - S01E01 - Pilot,mkv The Big Bang Theory …

@jreink01 said: Just to clarify, if I go by your example, if I point plex to the : The Big Bang Theory folder, in theory, it should see all the season subfolders then where the media actually is? As long as I name the main folder TV Shows/ You add the TV Shows directory to your TV library. You …

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@jreink01 said:
I named them exactly like the post I quoted and it still didnt pick it up

You might need to do the Plex Dance to get things straightened out.

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