# Total chaos after adding new files

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/total-chaos-after-adding-new-files/744775 "2021-09-20T19:52:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kinsella5598](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kinsella5598](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Kinsella5598)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/total-chaos-after-adding-new-files/744775/1 "2021-09-20T19:52:25Z")

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Don’t know what is happening here. I have a folder in Plex with TV Series and several folders with movie genres.  
Just wanted to add a new series and what happened? The system also added more than 100 other files which I dind’t choose and not only series, but also movies. When I remove them, the files are removed from my local hard drive. Total chaos. How can I resolve this?

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**Author:** ![perplexity](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/perplexity/32/270929_2.png) [@perplexity](https://forums.plex.tv/u/perplexity)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/total-chaos-after-adding-new-files/744775/2 "2021-09-20T21:15:49Z")

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Sounds like your Libraries are not setup properly, and/or you are not using them properly. Time to do some reading.

[https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/plex-media-server/libraries/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/plex-media-server/libraries/)

Also the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064)

> [@The Plex Dance ™](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064):
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> 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…

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**Author:** ![Kinsella5598](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kinsella5598](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Kinsella5598)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/total-chaos-after-adding-new-files/744775/3 "2021-09-20T21:28:09Z")

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Thank you  
Great info

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/total-chaos-after-adding-new-files/744775/4 "2021-12-19T21:28:28Z")

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