# Plex not recognizing certain episodes in a TV show

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884 "2019-07-21T09:38:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![agneev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@agneev](https://forums.plex.tv/u/agneev)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/1 "2019-07-21T09:38:30Z")

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Plex not recognizing episode 4 and 5, but recognizes the ones before that.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/5/a/5a3586fb9f1027ea6e7351f113333c660dbf8f46.png)

Edit:  
These are my agents:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/1/8/1820e3b863c7c231f34a7649c5ed681362e0f839.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![blim5001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@blim5001](https://forums.plex.tv/u/blim5001)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/2 "2019-07-21T10:44:28Z")

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you are not following the naming / organisation guidelines.  
([https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/))

maybe try something like this…

```auto
Euphoria (US)
--Season 01
----Euphoria (US) - s01e01 - Pilot.mkv
----Euphoria (US) - s01e02 - Stuntin' Like My Daddy.mkv
----Euphoria (US) - s01e03 - Made You Look.mkv
----Euphoria (US) - s01e04 - Shook One Pt. II.mkv
----Euphoria (US) - s01e05 - '03 Bonnie and Clyde.mkv

```

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**Author:** ![agneev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@agneev](https://forums.plex.tv/u/agneev)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/3 "2019-07-21T11:22:26Z")

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Even though I am 100% sure that is not the cause, I changed it to how you said and it did not fix it.

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**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/4 "2019-07-21T11:28:31Z")

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> [@The Plex Dance ™](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064):
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> The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at, so Plex will not “see” it anymore scan the library library (to detect changes) empty trash clean bundles (in menu next to server name, when accessed under ‘More’) double check naming schema and move files back scan the library Support articl…

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**Author:** ![agneev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@agneev](https://forums.plex.tv/u/agneev)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/5 "2019-07-21T11:33:50Z")

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Umm not sure I get that.

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**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/6 "2019-07-21T11:35:35Z")

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Did you read the full post?

Basically if you’ve done a mass renaming of folders and/or files, you need to clear out the cache etc. so that Plex knows to re-download meta-data.

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**Author:** ![agneev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@agneev](https://forums.plex.tv/u/agneev)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/7 "2019-07-21T11:39:08Z")

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What happens to the watched state of the content?

EDIT: Used [Trakt.tv](http://Trakt.tv) plugin to pull the watched state from the server.

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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:** [October 19, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-recognizing-certain-episodes-in-a-tv-show/435884/8 "2019-10-19T11:39:10Z")

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