Plex renaming files

I’ve created my collection, and everything was working fine, but recently, some film titles are automatically changing to their DVD format.

For example, Die Hard (correct title, linked to TMDB) is being renamed in Plex to something like DIE_HARD_4_0_F1.Title18.

This seems to be happening more frequently. Has something changed in a recent update, or is there a way to prevent this? Any help would be appreciated.

Plex is not renaming any files.
Is is only doing what you told it to do: use the embedded meta tags of your video files.
Tell it to stop doing that.

Edit your library
go to the Advanced tab
clear this checkbox:

“Refresh Metadata” of the affected items.

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Thank you that did the job. I don’t know how that box got ticked. It worked fine for quite a long time.

All sorted thank you

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