# Plex Media Scanner Depth

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** scanner-agent-dev\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-scanner-depth/535028 "2020-01-30T19:08:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zodiac69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@Zodiac69](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Zodiac69)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-scanner-depth/535028/1 "2020-01-30T19:08:23Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-scanner-depth/535028/2 "2020-01-30T19:14:31Z")

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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`

> **[Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/)**
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> The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from...

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](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multiple-locations-for-1-library/535014/4)

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-scanner-depth/535028/3 "2020-01-30T19:35:54Z")

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> [@TeknoJunky](#):
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> if you REALLY want to setup complex file organization, look at this post @ [Multiple locations for 1 library](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multiple-locations-for-1-library/535014/4)

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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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-scanner-depth/535028/4 "2020-04-29T19:36:02Z")

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