Turn off the auto-MERGING of video files

  1. I’ve done that. Twice. The second time with an entirely new library of a different name.

Some anecdotal evidence: plex got completely hung up on the library, my guess is due to too many files. I cleaned out all files older than 5 days. All the files in that 5 day window have no merging. All merged files occur in files created after “the purge”.

To me this points to partial files causing the issue.

… based on original detection. The Plex Dance is the only way to force Plex to reread the files.

WHY? And see above. This is not a feature, it is a bug. And if you fix THIS ONE THING, I imaging a ■■■■-ton of complaints would magically disappear.