Plex not adding certain episodes of the same show

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I’ve added a show to my library, but for some reason, only some of the episodes are being added. All the episodes follow the same naming convention and were downloaded together from the same source. I’m at a complete loss as to what might be going on, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Got the fix! Had to add a “0” before each single digit episode.

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What convention is that? Please provide an example. Just because they are all the same does not mean it is correct for the way the server needs it.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/

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Won’t work: “Trigun Ep 1 ‘The $$60 Billion Man’”

Works: “Trigun Ep 26 ‘Under the Sky So Blue’”

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Plex Documentation → Your Media
→ Naming & Organizing Your Movie Files
→ Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files

How are the files named and organized?

Be sure to follow Plex’s naming & organization requirements.

Example:

/TV Shows <-- Folder added to Plex TV show library
   /The Office (2005) {tvdb-73244} <-- Show Name (year); ID optional, but helps with matching
      /Season 01 <-- "Season" in English..
         /The Office s01e01.mkv <-- consider sXXeYY mandatory

If you need to rename many files:

Many people use Filebot. It is quite powerful and can rename an entire library in minutes.

Tiny Media Manager is also very useful, and free.

TMM Renamer Patterns:

  • Show Name: ${showTitle} (${showYear})
  • Season: Season ${seasonNr2}
  • Episode Name: ${showTitle} (${showYear}) s${seasonNr2}e${episodeNr2} ${episode.title}
  • Movie Name: ${title} (${year}) {imdb-${imdb}}

PowerRenamer in Microsoft Power Tools is helpful for simple renaming with pattern matches or regular expressions. It makes quick work of tasks such as adding a year to file names, removing undesirable text from multiple files, etc.

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Half of the episodes are recognized and work fine, and half don’t. As far as I can tell, the permissions are all same.

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This is what happens when you do not follow Plex documentation.

Rename per Plex docs.

You may also need to Plex Dance the show after renaming.

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for using EP need to use plexmatch file https://support.plex.tv/articles/plexmatch/

but I would still get into the habit of using the preferred naming S01E01 . there are many apps that can rename batches of files quickly and some OS batch file rename can do a decent job

https://thetvdb.com/series/trigun/seasons/absolute/1

Since that is anime you might try using the TVDB absolute ordering for that show but still at minimum should probably be a two digit numbers like 01 if less than 100 episodes

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