As my modest collection of tv series is slowly growing I decided to reorganise them a bit.
Instead of putting everything in one folder, like so:
/Series
...
/Babylon Berlin (2017)
/Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
/Boot ! Das (1985)
...
I wanted to put them into subfolders, like so:
/Series
...
/B
/Babylon Berlin (2017)
/Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
/Boot ! Das (1985)
...
This worked very well for my movies, so it should also work with series, so I thought.
Well, while in the previous setup everything was fine, now the scanner picks up only two entries in the subfolder, never three or more. Moving one of them out into /Series shows all three, but putting it back into /B deletes it from the library.
So two subfolders in /B is fine, but not three or more.
I have not the slightest idea what is going on, or what to do about it. I am totally lost.
By the way, I don’t mind being told to be an idiot … if it helps.
Plex doesn’t deal well with additional layers of folders.
If you feel the need to put different shows in their own alphabet index folders, point the library to those index folders instead of Series.
Example:
Series
B <- folder linked to your library
Babylon Berlin (2017)
...
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
...
Das Boot (1985) <- don't revert names of a show
...
C <- folder linked to your library
...
D <- folder linked to your library
...
TV Shows are more complex as they have a structure of their own (while movies are just standalone items). Plex expects the 1st level of subfolders inside a library folder to be the tv-show folder (e.g. Babylon Berlin (2017)). If you add an extra layer of folders to group them, Plex will treat your folder B as a show-level folder and attempt to match all shows it contains as a tv-show called “B” (or whatever it first matched inside that folder).
But then, please, say something to this effect in your support article “Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files”. I read it very carefully and still fell into this trap ;->
Tip! : More specifically, the folder you want to specify as the content location for the library is the folder that contains each of the individual show folders. So, if you chose to categorize your children’s content separate from more “adult” content (e.g. /TV Shows/Kids/ShowName vs /TV Shows/Regular/ShowName ), then you would specify /TV Shows/Kids as the source location for a “kids” TV library.
basically points that out. That’s basically doing the same thing you are attempting except instead of grouping by alphabet it’s grouping by content type.
Well, okay, “More specifically, the folder you want to specify as the content location for the library is the folder that contains each of the individual show folders.” does say something to that effect, in a somewhat indirect way.
But what about this compromise to allow for some library structure: if the name of a folder has not more than, say, three characters like “A-D”, it is not considered a show folder, but a subdirectory?
