Strange... Stargate SG-1 episodes are being placed everywhere

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OK…Ubuntu server 16.04.,latest Plex…

For some reason a single show, Stargate SG-1, is being placed inside multiple shows during library scans.
I have done the Plex-dance a few times, but for whatever reason, I cannot get this one show to show up correctly or at all.

Episodes for SGSG1 show up correctly identified by S#E# in the wrong shows:
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
House
The Walking Dead

The episodes are the right S#E#, i.e. S04E02, but they show up in the wrong show(s).
I have never seen anything like this before.
Stargate SG-1, for this example, has only one valid episode (S07E10) and I see no difference in the naming or anything.

Emby (sorry) sees the shows properly.
They are all named properly (./Stargate SG-1/Season #/Stargate SG-1 S##E##…)

Its just really strange.

Attached are my logs from the latest scan.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

JPlex Media Server Logs_2018-08-16_22-04-34.zip (3.6 MB)

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I have a hunch that the hyphen and the number in the show’s title don’t help.

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As Otto suggested overuse of the same delimiter causes this problem.

Please observe below where the hyphen is used as part of the name but period (.) is the actual field delimiter

[chuck@lizum tv3.106]$ ls Star*
Stargate Atlantis/ Stargate SG-1/     Stargate Universe/ 
[chuck@lizum tv3.106]$ cd Stargate\ SG-1/
[chuck@lizum Stargate SG-1.107]$ ls -la
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 12 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 ./
drwxrwxrwx 63 chuck chuck 4096 Jul 24 01:55 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 Jul  5 14:24 Season 01/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 02/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 03/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 04/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 05/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 06/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 07/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 08/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 09/
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck 4096 May 23 21:03 Season 10/
[chuck@lizum Stargate SG-1.108]$ ls -laR *01
Season 01:
total 11744140
drwxr-xr-x  2 chuck chuck       4096 Jul  5 14:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 chuck chuck       4096 May 23 21:03 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck 1082737181 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E01-E02.Children of the Gods.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck  500842669 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E03.The Enemy Within.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck  500995200 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E04.Emancipation.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck  501234811 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E05.The Broca Divide.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck  500633028 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E06.The First Commandment.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck  500594633 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E07.Cold Lazarus.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 chuck chuck  500266630 May 27 13:49 Stargate SG-1.S01E08.The Nox.mkv
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I don’t think it’s a naming issue. Looking at the scanner log it shows that PMS is trying to match each season to a show of that name. So “Stargate SG-1\Season 7” is somehow trying to match to a show called “Season 7”, etc.

A Plex Dance will be the only way to fix this that I can see.

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Thanks for the replies everyone.

Most of the shows names were simply ‘Stargate SG-1 S##E## [720p].EXT’ or similar. Very few had the episode title and very few had extra hyphens in the names aside from SG-1.

That said, I got it sorted out this morning after plex-dancing a ton of times with no change. It even seemed to get worse and matched one season to Ellen Degeneres. Previously, I think they all matched to existing shows I had.

My solution was three-fold and I am not sure which one did the trick.

  1. I used filebot to rename everything, so now all the files have a ton of hyphens (I didn’t read the replies until after I did). The file names are now ‘Stargate SG-1 - S##E## - TITLE.ext’.
  2. I then altered each file’s hash value so if Plex checked hashes, they would be different.
  3. Lastly, this is probably what resolved it, I renamed the series folder from “Stargate SG-1” to “Stargate SG1 (1997)”.

I finished the dance and moved the folder back into its TV home folder,scanned and voila. All better.

If I didn’t dance so many times before, I would have done one at a time to see what fixed it, but I just did everything, did the dance, and now Plex sees SG1 properly.

Thanks again!

J

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Silly question perhaps.

Which directory is the PMS library pointing to? Are you off by one directory level (too high or too low) ?

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Chuck,

It was at the same level as everything else I have:
/media/tv/series_name/season_folders/files
so:
/media/
–tv/
----Stargate SG-1/
------Season 1/
--------files
--------files
--------files
------Season 2
--------files
--------files
--------files

etc…

Library points to /media/tv/.

The folder is right back where it started and fine after what I explained above.
Just a strange one and the first time I ever saw anything that wacky from Plex scans.

Thanks

J

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