The Man from U.N.C.L.E. anyone have any ideas for me to try? The parents really want to watch it.
Quick test - Plex found it immediately with the following structure and naming.
TV Shows\The Man From U.N.C.L.E\Season 01\The Man From U.N.C.L.E. S01E01.mp4
Remember to perform the Plex Dance when correcting improper naming or structure.
I didn’t run this through a renaming program as it was just a quick test of one item. Normally I would use FileBot to ensure proper naming and folder structure prior to Plex scanning media.
Did the structure, did the dance. No change, folder still shows up completely empty.
Make sure you create a TV Show library and have Plex looking at that location - do not mix Movie and TV show media.
Take a look at the following support article.
Media Preparation
What OS? If Linux, check the permissions.
Windows 7 x64
I’ve got all four seasons and don’t recall any problems with it scanning, , ,
Simple file structure
Folder/TV/Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Folder/ Season 1
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. S01E01 The Vulcan Affair
etc. . .
Now, it might not be showing up if you don’t have the "." in U.N.C.L.E.; I know some shows get weird with stuff like that; but I don’t remember if I had to change anything on mine or not.
I have the following for my setup and Plex works perfectly with it:
TV Shows <— The TV library points here
---------Man from UNCLE (1964) <— This folder holds the season folders
------------------Season 01 <— This folder holds all the episodes for season 01
-------------------------The Man From U N C L E - s01e01 - The Vulcan Affair.mp4
-------------------------The Man From U N C L E - s01e02 - The Iowa Scuba Affair.mp4
-------------------------And so on for the rest of season 01
-----This structure continues for the rest of the episodes and seasons
Until I looked just now I had not noticed that the folder and the file names had some differences:
- The folder name lacks spaces in UNCLE ← I guess the spaces do not matter but I really should have them in both locations.
- The word “The” is a preface for the file names ← Plex likes this OK but again I “should” be consistent
- There is no date in the file names ← this is how I normally handle TV series that need a date to differentiate from another series. Dates are not needed in the file names as long as it is in the folder names. For TV shows folder names are MUCH more important than file names.
The above structure would work with the file names just like s01e01.mp4 and s01e02.mp4 and so on.
Okay, feel free to call me an idiot. When you point Plex at your stuff… the folder type is really important. x…x Everything was listed under movies. I just pointed it at my “stuff to watch” hdd. Now it is in two folders.
Sorry for the bother.