Server Version#:4.106.1 Player Version#:N/A <If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled> So recently I was trying to add season 2 of the mentalist and it contains an episode named “18-4-5” which is episode 21 of the season. For some reason…

Can you please post a screenshot of the directory with the files that are not showing up?

[image] Azicre: episode named “18-4-5” what was the actual file name? was it an mp4 or an mkv?

Try something like this. This is the way I have it and it matches correctly The Mentalist.S02E21.18-5-4 I suspect you have something more closely related to this The Mentalist (2008) - s02e21 - 18-5-4 or The Mentalist (2008) - s02e21-18-5-4 You may have to Plex dance <-click

Sure. Here is a screenshot of the mentalist season 2: [image] And here is burn notice season 1: [image]

I think this is the part that confuses the scanner if there’s a dash [Screenshot (3530)] Edit: I see this in the release notes for the latest beta build You don’t have a Plex pass but it looks like a solution might be in the works at least (Scanner) Certain episode filenames could appear to b…

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Azicre May 17, 2023, 7:40pm 6

Thanks! I do have like this “The Mentalist (2008) - s02e21 - 18-5-4” originally. I guess I will try out the plex dance because otherwise I have to change all the filenames

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