So I have a strange thing happening. Recently, I finally built a Plex Server powerful enough to share my media with my family members. I set them up with their own Plex user accounts and then went into my libraries, and gave everyone their own Library and shared their respective library with them. (TV Shows-Uncle John, TV Shows-Aunt Yvonne, etc.) If Uncle John wants to see Game of Thrones and I don’t already have it somewhere else, I place the media files in D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\Game of Thrones and it shows up in his shared library that I created for him and everything is fine…however, if Aunt Yvonne later says she’s also interested in Game of Thrones, I simply edit the TV Shows-Aunt Yvonne library, and add an additional folder: D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\Game of Thrones…except when I do this, Plex automatically scans library files and ends up adding several shows to Aunt Yvonnes library within Plex, “Pokemon”, “House”, “The Walking Dead”, “Breaking Bad”, and a Game of Thrones…each of these contains a season of Game of Thrones, and I don’t even have these other TV Shows anywhere in my libraries…what the heck is happening? Has anyone seen this before? Can I not add the same folder to multiple libraries? It seems random…some shows I can include in multiple libraries without issue, and others I cannot. 
That won’t work because Game of Thrones is the ROOT so that top-level folder doesn’t count.
I do the exact same thing you do, sharing multiple folders from libraries.
Make your folder structure like this.
D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\Game of Thrones (2011)\Game of Thrones (2011)\Season 01
D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\Game of Thrones (2011)\Game of Thrones (2011)\Season 02
D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\Game of Thrones (2011)\Game of Thrones (2011)\Season 03
etc...
And add the path D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\Game of Thrones (2011)\ to your aunts library. This will give her access to the folder(tv show) Game of Thrones.
It may look silly but plex needs to know what series to match. much like
D:\MEDIA\TV Shows-Uncle John\
As you well know plex hasn’t matched a show called TV Shows-Uncle John because this is the ROOT of your library. Any additional paths you add to your libraries will also be the ROOT and plex will scan the subfolders to find shows.
Why not adding all shows to the same library and edit the sharing labels on these shows?
The result will be the same: everyone will only see the shows (s)he is interested in.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/204232573-restricting-the-shares/
Wow, this solved it! You’re right, it does look silly but it makes sense. I followed your structure & was able to add it to everyone’s library without issue! Thanks so much for your help!
Thanks! I’ll experiment with using labels according to the article you sent and see if this works better. Appreciate your help!
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