Recording issues where part 1 and part 2 of episode have same episode number

Yes, that would violate Plex’s primitive directive: Absolutely do not record anything that remotely looks like something you already have. There is no way to override the prime directive other than to remove the offending file from the library temporarily and rescan the library (I believe this is known as the Plex dance). I just think of it as a pain in the …

Sensible dvr software developers include a manual recording option to record by time/channel for these types of situations. Plex does not appear to be a member of that “elite” group of developers.