PLEX mixing up shows with each other

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ok i have Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways it was not able to detect the metadata and put it as “BBC documentary” I manually fixed all the pics and ect…
now when I add Ancient Aliens instead of just making its own listing it adds it in to the Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways ???
on the hard drive there all in there own folder under TV shows but PLEX just puts them all together is there away to stop this???

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Would you mind sharing how exactly you named those media files and how they’re grouped in the folder linked to your library?

If the matching goes that badly wrong it implies there might be something more at hand.
Otherwise instead of manually replacing texts and pictures you could have used the “match” function on the tv-show level.

Based on Plex naming conventions, the following example should work:

TV Shows   <-- the folder linked to your tv-show library
  Foo Fighters Sonic Highways   <-- Windows doesn't support ':' chars in file names, so just drop it
    Season 01
      Foo Fighters Sonic Highways - s01e01 - Chicago.ext
      Foo Fighters Sonic Highways - s01e02.ext   <-- text after the season/episode pattern will be ignored anyway
      Foo Fighters Sonic Highways - s01e03.ext
      ...
      Foo Fighters Sonic Highways - s01e08.ext

  Ancient Aliens
    Season 01
      Ancient Aliens - s01e01 - The Evidence.ext
      Ancient Aliens - s01e02.ext
      ...
      Ancient Aliens - s01e05.ext
    Season 02
      Ancient Aliens - s02e01.ext
      Ancient Aliens - s02e02.ext
      ...
      Ancient Aliens - s02e10.ext
    ...
    Season 15
      ...
      Ancient Aliens - s15e12 - Aliens and the Presidents.ext

where .ext is your file extension
You should not add additional folder levels or leave others out.

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the “match” function did not fix any thing…
how do i show the listing like you did ?

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ok well it seemed to “fix” its self?? i removed all the documentaries and put them in there own library

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but the other problem i’m having is some shows are not even showing up…

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Plex does not like it if you mix different types of videos in a single library.
You should keep movies and tv-shows in separate libraries.
You can keep your tv-show documentaries with your regular tv-shows and your documentary movies with your regular movies – but you cannot mix tv-show type videos with movie-type videos.

Example

D:
  Documentaries (TV)
    Ancient Aliens (2010)
      Season 01
        Ancient Aliens (2010) - s01e01.ext
        ...

  Documentaries
    A traveler's guide to the planets (2010)
      A traveler's guide to the planets (2010).ext
    Secret Life of Cats (2014)
      Secret Life of Cats.ext
    ...

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there not mixed up I have 3 Library’s you can see it in the pic.
Moves
TV Shows
Documentaries

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The folder D:\Documentaries\ appears to contain documentaries that are tv-shows or individual films/movies.

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ok well I put them in there own folder.

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there all considered Documentaries

but only the 2 are still showing up I did a “scan liberty files”

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You’re missing my point.
Let’s look at the 2 examples here:

  1. Ancient Aliens is a 15-season tv-show
  2. The Secret Life of Cats is a movie

Both are documentaries… that doesn’t change that you cannot bring them together in a single library within Plex.
You’ll need 2 top-level folders, e.g. Documentaries (TV) and Documentary-Films in which you place the documentaries of each type. Then you can have 2 libraries in Plex – one for tv-show type and one for movie-type content, wich each of them linked to the respective content folder.
Based on the above example:

Library Library Type Related Folder
Documentaries (TV) TV Shows D:\Documentaries (TV)\
Documentaries Movies D:\Documentaries\

From what I could find, your content should split like this:

Your current folder name Related Library Type Link
A traveler’s Guide to the planets (2010) tv show TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
Ancient Aliens (2010) tv show TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
Carl Sagan Cosmos (1980) tv show TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (2014) tv show TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
i am chris farley (2015) movie TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
Leah Remini Scientology and the Aftermath (2016) tv show TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
secret life of cats (2014) movie TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
The Ultimate Guide House Cats (2000) movie TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb
We Stand Alone Together (2001) movie TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb

Some of your names slightly vary from how they’re listed on those repositories.

Not quite sure about Vitamania – if this is referring to Vitamania: The Sense and Nonsense of Vitamins from 2018, this is a movie documentary (TheTVDb, The Movie Database, IMDb).

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yeah I guess I’m not understanding and I don’t understand why it shod matter it seems like it shod be more flexible…

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“Should” is not really appropriate. With Plex it is either “is” or “is not.” Rather than worrying about how Plex “should” behave you only need to worry about how Plex works and adhere to their guidelines.

It is best not to fight the great “Plex-i-saurus.” Trying to fight the great thunder lizard Plex is can do more damage to your data than Godzilla did to Tokyo on all his visits combined.

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