Found a PARTIAL fix. And then I found a WEIRD occurrence.
I renamed the First/Second file to: RECESS.S01E01-E02.The.Break.In.and.The.New.Kid.mp4
(Note all the periods placed all the way through the file)
This resulted in BOTH separate servers showing episodes 2 to 26 now being detected and showing in Plex. Episode 1 was not being found (and this was the episode file I changed)
How this effects ALL episodes when only renaming the FIRST episode I have no clue.
So I then renamed ALL files in Season 1 to use the above format with periods. (It takes 5 to 10 minutes for the scan and intro/credit detections to run each time I rename a file).
And it now shows only 15 episodes but it included Episode 1 and Episode 25 but not the rest of the ODD number episodes.
Don’t know WHY this is happening all of a sudden. But it does point back to something changed in the server. Why would it suddenly change how it detects episodes based on whether the file name has periods between each word or between the title and the Season/Episode numbers or not? And why would it remove the ODD episodes from 3 to 23 when I change the rest of the file names to match the first file name?!?
I’ve used Chuck’s tool many times when needed. But I can not see 2 separate databases on 2 separate systems experiencing the EXACT same issue at the exact same time. I can try to run it, but I’m 99% sure it won’t change this as the odds of both databases on totally separate systems having the exact same issue at the same time are astronomical. The only common factor are the file names on disk and how plex is identifying the episodes based on the file names.
Didn’t even need to do the Plex Dance either time when renaming. I just renamed them and the server instantly picked up everything as shown above.
