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I do not want Plex to put titles together as “play together” on its own. I have had to work to find movies that I have added and Plex has joined them other movies. This is a “feature” that I would like to turn off.
Are you talking about Plex’ handling of movies which are split across multiple files?
e.g.
Movies
Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - dvd1.ext
Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - dvd2.ext
being treated as a single item and played sequentially?
You should be able to simply “overcome” that by following the naming schema (e.g. not to include a trailing - part1/ - part2 in the names of different movies.
The specific instances I have encountered were “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein” was automatically joined with “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” and it took me a week to figure out where it went, because I couldn’t see it in my library. I have had the same thing happen with some Perry Mason TV movies, so then I have to look through all the other “Perry Mason” movies, click on the options for each to see which one has the “Split Apart” option. These are movies with distinct names, named properly and each in their own folder on the server. I want it to stop “helping” me by joining these together.
Ok… in that case we’re not dealing with stacked files but videos Plex considers to be different (quality) versions of the same movie.
If you encounter such an issue, the easiest way to address it is filter your library by Duplicates – this will show you all items which have different versions. When editing that item, the Info tab will show you all associated files; the same applies to using Get Info from the item’s context menu.
Mind sharing those distinct/proper names and your folder structure?
It’s not so much that I don’t believe you… we’re just seeing that exact phrase dozens of times and usually half the cases use a completely odd naming 
The A&C movies are the ones I remember distinctly. Here is how they are on my server:
\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\Shared Videos\Movies\Frankenstein\Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\Shared Videos\Movies\Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)\Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
It did the same thing when I ripped my LOTR collection. For each movie, it joined the Theatrical Version and the two Extended Editions into a single entry. Here is how I named those.
\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\Shared Videos\Movies\FELLOWSHIP of the Ring (2001)\FELLOWSHIP of the Ring (2001)
\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\Shared Videos\Movies\THE LORD OF THE RINGS- THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXT.) PT. 1\THE LORD OF THE RINGS- THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXT.) PT. 1_t00
\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\Shared Videos\Movies\THE LORD OF THE RINGS- THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXT.) PT. 2\THE LORD OF THE RINGS- THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXT.) PT. 2_t00
Plex currently has no means to distinguish different editions. So the different cuts of lord of the rings getting merged is to be expected. Users have different strategies to deal with that, ranging from manually splitting them apart to keeping alternate cuts/editions in a separate library.
I’ve just added some dummy files to a test library and got the other files properly matched right away:
Movies <- the folder linked to the library
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).mkv
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).mkv
I’m not sure if Plex gets thrown off by the 1st file being located in a folder simply called Frankenstein?
If there’s files giving you a particularly hard time… since the introduction of the new(ish) Plex Movie agent you can also include a unique reference in the folder name with the ID of one of the global repositories.
e.g.
Movies
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) {tmdb-3073}
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).mkv
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) {tt0047795}
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).mkv
When referencing IMDb, the prefix identifying the source of the ID is optional (=you can have an imdb- prefix or ignore it as in the example above). For references to The Movie Database you cannot ignore the tmdb- prefix. IDs must be in curly brackets {...}.
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