I have been using plex media server for quite some time. I currently have 2 movies that seem to have joined in the meta data and only exist on one icon. Using the edit - info on that icon I see both files. One movie was from 1967, the other from 2006. Both have the same movie title. Casino Roya…

It’s good practice to include the year (in parenthesis, after the title) for all movies. This will help ANY media matching program to retrieve the correct movie from online sources. If you do not change the filenames (or you do and nothing changes in Plex), you can manually Split Apart two files t…

Casino Royale (1967) Casino Royale (2006) You can also put the imdb or tmdb id number in the file inside curly brackets Casino Royale (1967) {imdb-tt0061452} Casino Royale (2006) {imdb-tt0381061}

How do I make that change. The file name is obvious, but they are mkv files so not really able to be edited. Plex does not allow me to even see the second file to change it in the edit window other than the edit - info - files where the names of both files display but cannot edit anything there.

So the file names would become Casino Royale (1967),mkv Casino Royale (2006).mkv and plex would recognize them as different? That is what puzzles me since the file names are already different.

If you don’t put the dates in parenthesis the scanner doesn’t know 2006 or 1967 is the date or part of the actual movie name It just ends up picking the closest match, which in your case is the same movie creating a duplicate The dates for all movies should have parenthesis, and especially movies …

To add further. For those television series which are reboots with the same name, the same rule applies. “BattleStar Galactica (1978)” vs “BattleStar Glactica (2003)” “The Flash (1996)” vs “The Flash (2014)”

Da rules: https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/

Thanks to everyone for the pointers. Learning something new about plex is a good thing and I appreciate it. :+1:

@computersavvy If I may share my renaming rules ( I use an external tool which does the renaming and placing of finished files where Plex expects them ) The operators: {n} = name {y} = year {s} = season {t} = Television {s00e00} = season+episode automatically generated by the tool My Rules…

I will have to look up and see if similar tools are available for use on linux. I do not use windows so those specific tools are not available, but I am sure something is available when I encounter problems in the future. The problem I started this thread about is the only one that has given me is…

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JaysPlex November 18, 2022, 3:04am 4

No you edit the file name on your file system, not inside Plex

Plex Dance the files if the changes aren’t showing up inside Plex

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