Plex Media Scanner Depth

What is the depth that PMS scan to?
This is my “Path” depth - /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek Discovery/Season 1/
I use to have an additional level - /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek/Star Trek Discovery/Season 1/ - and it worked fine, but then i added - /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek/Star Trek Picard/Season 1.

Plex then saw the new /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek /Star Trek Picard/Season 1 as the same as /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek/Star Trek Discovery/Season 1/ and joined the episodes.

I use to be able to “Split” the episodes, but this no longer work and the only way around it is to move the series one level “UP” to /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek Discovery/Season 1/ and /store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek Picard/Season 1 respective and now PMS is happy.

What has changed as this has worked fine before, or am i missing something?

its not changed, you should never group different/related series under a sub folder

/store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek Discovery/Season 1
/store/data1/Series/TV/Star Trek Picard/Season 1

you don’t really even need both series and tv.

/store/data1/TV <<<< this should be the path in your plex tv library

these are the shows in the TV folder that appear in your tv library
/store/data1/TV/Star Trek Discovery/Season 1
/store/data1/TV/Star Trek Picard/Season 1

It’s also a good idea to put the (year) after the show name

/store/data1/TV/Star Trek Discovery (2017)/Season 1
/store/data1/TV/Star Trek Picard (2020)/Season 1

here is mine

/data/media/TV/Star Trek - Discovery (2017)/Season 01/Star Trek - Discovery (2017) - s01e01 - The Vulcan Hello [x264 AC3 5.1].mkv
/data/media/TV/Star Trek - Picard (2020)/Season 01/Star Trek - Picard (2020) - s01e01 - Remembrance [h264 EAC3 5.1].mkv

if you REALLY want to setup complex file organization, look at this post @ Multiple locations for 1 library

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It is noteworthy to mention all those ‘locations’ were once ‘Libraries’ - before The Big Crunch, recently, I haven’t fully recovered from.

I got used to storing things in certain places, so that, I didn’t change. It’s also handy when you’re re-allocating storage. A smaller or different shaped Tetris Block may fit here, or here, or there…lol

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