I am on the latest BETA version of Plex , that I mainly installed to fix the duplicate pics of actors overlapping with each other, however now, when searching an actor that might exist in different libraries , search results are missing or are different depending the device you search them on. Diffe…

I have Colin Farell in 4 libraries. Colin Farell is in 3 libraries and another Colin Farell in just one. When searching on an android phone it shows the results from 2 library types. The rest are not shown. In order for the results from the other libraries to show I have to click on each Colin Fare…

Am I the only one experiencing this? :slight_smile:

Yeap. As described on my Post, have already cleaned bundles/ optimised database/ checked if corrupt. I bet something is wrong with the Plex apps, as each one of them produces different results.

Have a tried a full library metadata refresh? I needed to do that.

if anyone else have the same issues, please do report them as well.

Just so I’m clear on the issue you’re reporting, could you explain what you are expecting to see?

Let’s begin with the LG app. It’s not showing the second Colin Farrell and it’s only showing results for an item from just one library. The other 3 libraries are missing from the results (all libraries are pinned).

[image] Invisible_Plex_User: it’s only showing results for an item from just one library. The other 3 libraries are missing from the results (all libraries are pinned). Actor search is scoped PER library and NOT shared across libraries. It’s a long running major shortfall of the actor search …

Searching Actors has been broken

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

anon5074910 November 21, 2021, 8:57am 4

Check out the those thread and see if it helps Actor/Actress Metadata Issue

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Searching Actors has been broken

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