# Plex not adding all files for tv show - Solved
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-adding-all-files-for-tv-show-solved/607072
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files
**Tags:** server-linux
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-adding-all-files-for-tv-show-solved/607072 "2020-06-24T22:00:16Z")
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I have just added the tv show “Yellowstone” using Sonarr. According to Sonarr all of Season 1 & 2 have downloaded and processed. When I look at the files in the directory on the drive they are all there. Plex is showing that I have 2 files of Season 1 and 9 from Season 2 missing. I have rescanned 3 or 4 times and no changes.
Sonarr is doing all of the renaming and processing after nzbget downloads the files. I have looked at Plex on my laptop using chrome and also my Mi4 Box running Android 9 and also my Android phone using Plex app 8.2.0.18507 (0a3f8816).
Any help or suggestions are appreciated. If more info is needed please let know and I will provide it.
john
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Do they look anything like this:
They should, 'cause those are working perfectly.
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They look similiar, I just don’t use the hyphen. Everything shows up except for episodes 3 & 8.
I have added Season 2 and the only one found by Plex was ep 4.
Any suggestions as to why those 2 wouldn’t be picked up by plex?
john
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If I may ask?
What’s in the NFO files?
Some of the scanners (legacy) will silently include the info.
I have no idea if it works correctly or not because NFO’s aren’t really supported.
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basically just the name, episode and some info about the episode. Didn’t know they weren’t supported, been using them for movies and tv shows since I started in 2013. Thanks for that bit of info and I will stop getting them.
This is the one for S01E01 that plex shows
```auto
Daybreak112018-06-20John Dutton, patriarch of a Montana ranching family and owner of the largest ranch in the U.S., fights to defend his land and his family from the modern-day forces that threaten his way of life; land developers, an Indian reservation and America's first National Park.16082https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/341164/6507316.jpgfalse7.0English / Chinese / Chinese / Chinese / Chinese
and this is from S01E03 which was not found by plex
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No Good Horses 1 3 2018-07-11 The Duttons deal with a painful family anniversary. Kayce saves a young girl from danger. Jamie and Beth plan their respective political careers. Rainwater makes an ominous threat to the Dutton legacy. 16084 https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/341164/6725918.jpg false 2 10570071 x264 23.976 960 Progressive 1920 48.808533333333337 2928.5119999999997 640000 6 AC3 English English / Chinese / Chinese / Chinese / Chinese ```
Don’t know what I did wrong but the second quote should be formatted just like the first one and not like it appears. They are text files.
john
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I see…
… and why, again, are you including nfo files - that don’t do anything?
(except perhaps confuse an agent - necessary to the operation)
I’ll leave you in Chuck’s capable hands.
Filebot and I have this TV Show thing down.
Episodes 3 and 8 don’t elude us - we must be doing something right.
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NFO files, for movies, if they contain `tt=number`, are used.
NFO files for television aren’t.
I can share, the new movie scanner is in Forum Preview stage.
The new tv scanner is close behind it. It’s undergoing testing now (we have a massive TV library and finding as many edge cases as we can before preview).
For television, I would
1. Remove the NFO files (move to a sub directory for test purposes)
2. Rename one problematic season per the spec (name - SxxExx - optional title.ext)
3. Plex Dance it.
See if it comes back in fully when reintroduced. It should.
If not, I will create a test series to run against my library
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Sorry it took so long to respond, old people go to bed early and sleep late LOL.
I wasn’t aware that Plex didn’t use nfo files. I have always had them and have never had a problem until a couple of weeks ago when I noticed a couple of new movies wheren’t showing up and then the problem with Yellowstone caused a big problem. I just haven’t gotten around to checking the movies out.
I moved Season 1 to a different drive that is not read by Plex, removed everything except .mkv files. Then I renamed them as you suggested. Then I did Plex Dance. Then moved the files back to the orginal spot and rescanned TV Shows. Now, only 3 of Season 1 shows up, 4-6-9 are the only ones that show in plex.
This is what Season 1 folder looks like now.
Thanks for your help
john
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Be careful who you call “Old People” . I’m 61 😛
LOL
I will figure out what’s happening here.
I am in the middle of a test.
I’ll write back as soon as complete.
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That’s not old, you can’t even get SocSec. I turn 77 on Tuesday lol. Plus I have 2 Great-Granddaughters 🙂
Didn’t even have to do the Plex Dance, permissions was the problem. As soon as I changed them Plex showed all the episodes. Didn’t have time to anything. About a month ago I switched from SABnzbd to NzbGet. SABnzbd set permissions and I must have spaced that when setting up NzbGet. Just checked and can’t find anyplace to do that. The episodes were marked with permission to run as a program! Any quick way to change all of the tv permissions? This is what I’m looking at to change
/dev/sdf1 7.3T 3.6T 3.4T 52% /mnt/TV\_Shows
/dev/sda5 117G 866M 116G 1% /home
/dev/sdb1 917G 262G 610G 31% /mnt/Media
/dev/sdj1 5.5T 3.7T 1.5T 72% /mnt/Movies-3
/dev/sda2 1014M 268M 747M 27% /boot
/dev/sda1 599M 8.6M 591M 2% /boot/efi
/dev/sdc1 3.6T 8.8G 3.4T 1% /mnt/Movies-1
/dev/sdd1 3.6T 3.4T 833M 100% /mnt/Movies
/dev/sdh1 4.6T 2.9T 1.5T 67% /mnt/TV\_Shows-2
/dev/sdg1 4.6T 4.3T 5.3G 100% /mnt/Movies-2
/dev/sdi1 7.3T 5.1T 1.9T 74% /mnt/TV\_Shows-3
/dev/sde1 5.5T 3.2T 2.0T 62% /mnt/TV\_Shows-1
So Thank you very much!! Now all I have to do is get the permissions sorted out and I will be good to go. Yellowstone is all set and everything showing but I intend to go back through everything and make sure the permissions are set correctly.
I marked this as solved by editing the first post title. I don’t use forums enough to know the correct procedure and have found different ways on different forums. Please let me know if this is wrong and how I should mark it solved. thanks
john
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John,
Ok, you got me there. Most of these guys are kids . LOL
As for perms. Sonarr has Media Management → Show Advanced.
At the bottom.
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Thanks again for your help. yeah, I’m generally the old guy where ever I go in forums or other sites. Best Buy is always good for a laugh when I ask questions that they don’t understand. My oldest son, 51, gets a kick out of telling people people that I always root my phone and generally run a variety of roms on it.
Anyway, I completely missed that in Sonarr. When I switched to NzbGet I also switched Sonarr to the newer version based on Python 3 instead of 2. It is laid out differently and I missed turning that one to advanced. They put tabs at the top and I have trouble reading them without my glasses.
again, thanks for the help. Permissions all straightened out. Cleared up several movies that weren’t showing up also. I had never looked at permissions like you displayed, generally used stat and you look at one at a time. your way shows the disparity between different folders and the error of my ways. lol
john
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I have a scar on my butt that’s 61…
… and the Alfalfa Field where it happened is about where the Pharmacy is in a Wal-Mart now - so I can think about it when I’m getting my medications…
😷
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Sure you can - guys like we 3 have a million of 'em…
I can still walk to the Pharmacy from the front door, but one of these days - if the pills keep workin’ - that beepin’ cart and destroying Peanut Butter Displays is going to be the high point of my day.
I know two of the Greeters - they’ll keep the battery charged for me.
😃
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Well, I don’t have to walk to the Pharmacy, it’s delivered to my mail box. Love that bennie. Yep, the pills, a handful every morning and few more at dinner. Must have some kind of preservative in them. My oldest granddaughter lived with me for a few years and always tried to get me to organic and healthy. I think I finally convinced her that I had to eat the stuff I did because the chemicals and perservatives was the only reason I was still around. 🙂
I do have one scar on my head that’s about 70 years old thanks to an older sister. Most of my scars are recent, surgeries on stomach, heart, etc.
john
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