# PLEX Not Scraping All Files

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**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [February 26, 2022, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-scraping-all-files/778344 "2022-02-26T07:33:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-not-scraping-all-files/778344/14 "2022-03-05T08:04:17Z")

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Do you (or did you at one time in the past) download or transcode directly into the folder which is being watched by Plex for media?  
If so: don’t. Always use a “staging folder” for this kind of thing which is outside the scope of Plex.

Then perform the [Plex dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) with all movies involved in the mixup (including “Once Upon a Time…”).  
Add them back only one by one.

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