I have a folder called Movies with sub folders which are all added or seen fine except one folder. I’ve noticed that ‘Fast and Furious Collection’ folder has all the movies within it, but out of the 10 movies only one is being seen ! In checking the one movie under general info it has all the other 9 files within it, so seems to think the one movies is part of the other 9 !? Has anyone seen this no matter what i do, rename the folder the same movie appears without the other 9, but info has the other 9 movies under it’s info !!!
everytime i add movie back one by one the info on the first movie has both entries and the 2nd film never gets added by its self !!! no idea why its doing this
My understanding is that your have created a folder named ‘Fast and Furious Collection’ and put all the movies into this folder, is this correct?
If yes: you should put all movies into their own folder for Plex to recognise them. Then, within Plex, you can assign them to a ‘Fast and Furious’ collection. You even have the option to hide them from the Library view and only show the collection, there.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/
As @Andreas_B mentions, make sure you follow Plex’s naming & organization rules. Use the movie name as displayed at TMDB or IMDB.
Plex generally recommends placing each movie in a separate folder (required if you want to add extras, cover art, etc).
Consider adding the TMDB/IMDB ID to the file names. That tells Plex exactly which movie to match.
Plex Dance the movies after renaming / reorganizing. Move them all out of the view of the Plex scanners. When returning, move them back one at a time. It will make troubleshooting easier if one of them is not properly recognized.
Example:
/Movies <-- Folder added to movie library
.../The Fast and the Furious (2001) {imdb-tt0232500} <-- MovieName (year) {imdb/tmdb id}
....../The Fast and the Furious (2001) {imdb-tt0232500}.ext <-- ext=mkv/mp4/etc
.../2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) {imdb-tt0322259}
....../2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) {imdb-tt0322259}.ext
i have yep, but other folders work this way - purely did this from a unix perspective looking at the folders file view so i can easily see what is where. Already have the colllections added for each category. Just weird the folder seems to be picked up generically as the total of all films within that folder, other folder like James Bond, or Harry Potter setup the same, but it recognises all the films within it, not just a single entity with all the films attached to the folder name… It’s odd… but thanks.
noted, pointing me in more direction to try some other stuff. I have since left one single file in there re-scanned etc, but once i add the extra film into that folder it sees the whole folder as 1 movie - it adds to the existing film in it’s information tag… it’s odd. Moved all the films out the folder into just Movies and re-scanned picked them up ok, all separately, so it’s something to do with the sub folder name for example Movies/James Bond Collection or Movies/Harry Potter Collection - i have other folders some are fine same naming convention etc and then others just seems to add everything under the 1 film but don’t display the rest of them, like it’s treating the folder name as a movie with for example 10 films within the folder. It then lists all the films under the 1 movie…
It is what happens when you do not follow Plex’s naming convention. It might work. It might not.
From my server:
├── Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) {imdb-tt0295297} {edition-Extended}
│ └── Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) {imdb-tt0295297} {edition-Extended}.mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010).mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011).mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).mkv
├── Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
│ └── Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).mkv
I don’t use individual folders for my movies. I have one lump folder for movies, with sub-folders within that only if there are movies that belong to a set and are 3 or more in a series. So I have a sub-folder for the fast and furious franchise.
You may see Plex combine the titles as you claim if you are using non-standard naming schemes. If Plex suspects (wrongly) that the extra files are “different versions” of a movie, they will be combined into one file. This will happen especially if you are using something like Fast and Furious 1 and Fast and Furious 2` etc etc for the file names.
You can use the ... > Split Apart option on the movie to break them out into separate entries, then you will have to manually match them to the correct movie by doing ... > Fix Match.
But using the “correct” title for these movies will ensure Plex identifies the movies correctly. I know it hurts to see them in your folder-view, being out of order.
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