Server Version#: 1.32.6.7468 Player Version#:all after a problem with bundles cleanup wich is now working again plex scanner is not working anymore. when scanning a movie or tv show it does not find any matches. when set to tmdb or tvdb the matches are being found. but now it is changing tv sho…

No i do not have any of those tasks running. None that i can think of or set myself. I could grant you acces so you can check for yourself. But there is defenitly nothing running set by me

I have exactly the same problem. Everything worked until mid-August. From mid-August until yesterday I hadn’t added any new films. Now it doesn’t work anymore. I was able to temporarily solve the problem by changing the agent from “Plex Movie” to “Plex Movie (Legacy)” and the scanner from “Plex Mo…

Same here the problems started a few weeks ago. Before that i never had any problems. The first thing i noticed was cleanup getting stuck. Wich fortunatly is working again and right after that the scanner stoped working I now set it to tmdb and tvdb and these are working oke for now after a litle …

Same here. Plex Server has suddenly stopped identifying any movies, shows or albums for me. I did not change anything on the server.

@GMTolboom BijanK Please start a new thread and post what is happening along with server logs. @Geextah Do you have server logs? Are you running a cron job or scheduled task to update/fix permissions? @GMTolboom Are you sure you dont have any cron jobs or scheduled tasks set to run on your library…

@dbirch I do not understand your question. What do permissions have to do with false identification? After I changed the agent and the scanner everything now works again.

@Geextah This is why we always suggest creating your own thread, GMTolboom’s issue is that the scanner is repeatedly being triggered (probably from a cron job to fix permissions) which is causing repeated scanner initialization, and not allowing the scan to finish per ChuckPa’s analysis above. Usin…

@dbirch i think i have the same problem as @Geextah and @BijanK as the scanner stopped working without any changes made to the NAS that the scanner was triggerd was because before the problems started i added a lot of media. and the scanner was not working properly. i changed the scanner to tmdb …

after setting the scanner back to plex and removing the movie files, i analised the library but no changes were found and the movies are still shown even tough they are not there [image] [image] i manually removed all the movies thru Plex. [image] i emptied the trash and did a manual bundle…

Plex Scanner not working

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GMTolboom September 22, 2023, 1:50pm 17

i could perform a plex dance but than with the library that has the least movies in it.
in my case that would be the anime movie library

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