Refresh option gone along with update scroll ... why?

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I feel awful for complaining, the UI is sleek and nice… but my ‘workflow’ was to add the days tv and refresh with ‘recently added so that I could see the new shows added and then go watch on my Roku’. It was just one click and I could see the status bar working (also gone now). I would never play all from the top level and don’t see why the refresh icon isn’t be there too, or at least under the 3-dot menu.

I assume most that do a daily update wouldn’t want to update all libraries but rather just the one they added media to. So doing a server refresh will take a lot longer to go through all my movies and music when I just want the days TV shows updated.

Or perhaps I’m just dated, if there is a better way I’d love to learn?

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Click the three dots next to the library name on the left side.

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That forces a complete refresh of the whole library and redownloads everything though.

Surely the ability to simply scan for new media has not been entirely removed?

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On the left, hover over your library name with your mouse, and then three little dogs will appear. Click it, and you’ll get the refresh option for that library.

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@tom8344 said:
I feel awful for complaining, the UI is sleek and nice… but my ‘workflow’ was to add the days tv and refresh with ‘recently added so that I could see the new shows added and then go watch on my Roku’.

I think you are using the wrong term here.

Update = scan for new file names and add them, then download metadata for just the new items
Refresh = Download fresh metadata, regardless whether it is a new or older item
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201697363-How-is-Refresh-All-different-from-Update-Library-

What you want when you have added a new episode, is the ‘Update Library’ command.
Which is located in the same menu (2nd option from top)