Renaming has only made things worse

[JuiceWSA]

Replied to Dave - Meant for Tommo - apologies.

Season 1 will work.
I use Season 01 because that’s what Filebot does - and it’s what’s in the instructions.

To do this right:

1)Remove The Tunnel from the Library to a place of safe keeping where Plex can’t see it.
2) Fix the file names and structures outside of Plex’s View.
3) scan library
4) see show is gone - completely.
5) empty trash
6) clean bundles
7) put ‘Fixed’ TV Show back into TV Show Library
8) scan library

That is called The Plex Dance and if you hate doing that - join the club - but also know how important it is to use valid TV Show naming and structuring so you can AVOID the Plex Dance - if possible.

The Plex Dance ™

The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at, so Plex will not “see” it anymore scan the library library (to detect changes) empty trash clean bundles (in menu next to server name, when accessed under ‘More’) double check naming schema and move files back scan the library Support articl…

Before doing any of that - do this:

Video File Naming

With LMA in priority, Embedded Titles within MP4/M4V files are preferred - even over a perfect file name. Local Media Assets should - AT ALL TIMES - remain enabled (unless specifically instructed to turn it off). Local Media Assets should be ‘Demoted’, to the bottom of the stack of active agents under ALL tabs in Shows and Movies, but should NOT be disabled. Local Media Assets is needed for many things - it doesn’t need to be given Tip-Top-Priority (as Plex has so hatefully placed it as it’s …