Server Version#: 1.20.1.3252 For maybe the past year or 2 I have been using Radarr to upgrade movies/redownload better quality versions of existing movies. I have unchecked " Empty trash automatically after every scan" so that whenever a change to the FILE is detected it does not remove the movie …

That sounds like it might be the same bug I was experiencing. If so, it’s a known issue and a fix is on the way. [image] Change in 'Trash' Behavior - unexpected library item removal Plex Media Server Thanks for the info on this, I wish I had seen this forum thread earlier…

I am also seeing this in movies, as well as TV. For one TV show, all I did was move it up a folder level, and it was detected as a new show again.

[image] snorkrat: Empty trash automatically after every scan And I’m assuming you have “ Empty trash automatically after every scan” checked? The thing is this used to work flawlessly. I’m not sure what changed… was it a PMS upgrade?

Thanks for the info! I don’t know why I didn’t see that thread when I searched. But glad to know it’s not a fault on my end. That issue sounds exactly like what’s happening with me. Thanks again.

I’m not sure if this is related or not, but the end result is similar: I often manually download upgrades of movies I already have in Plex. Before deleting the old version of the movie, I’ll run a Plex scan of the database, and in the past what always happens is that the two versions of the movie …

That sounds like exactly this same issue. I think it was fixed in the beta PMS released 20 hours ago. :slight_smile: [image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3343 is now available in the beta update channel. NEW: (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox mo…

I’m on Version 1.20.2.3343 – but regrettably the problem is still occurring… Newly added files that already have an existing version in the database are still coming in as “recently added” items, separate from the original version, no duplicate-copies icon; they can be recognized as “duplicates” if…

I think that’s a different issue, especially because you describe it working with “new” media. Did you Upgrade matching or did you manually change the scanner and agent to the new one? (I’m not sure if that did more than a Refresh.) If you look at the XML on some of these duplicates, what’s the fi…

Relevant: [image] When upgrading quality, matching generates a duplicate item Plex Media Server After doing this, you need to “Refresh Metadata”, before it will actually be updated to the new agent. If you replace the file before that, the new file will be a different mov…

Yep, I’d done all that – upgraded matching, refreshed all… But after checking the meta again, per your clues above, it turned out that the metadata-refresh of the library must not have completed originally – some had the old meta, some the new… So I re-ran “Refresh Metadata" on the entire library a…

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