TV show only showing 1 season out of 4

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So I uploaded X-Men Evolution to my Plex Server. All four seasons. When I first added it it showed up as Digimon tv show. WTH! so I switched the art work, original air date and then I analyzed and fix matched. I got it to show X-men Evolution. But its only showing one season out of the four seasons there are. When I first uploaded it and it showed up as Digimon, it also showed only one season. I have tried renaming the file in every different way I can think of. right now I have them like this,

TV Shows > Marvel’s X-Men Evolutions > X-Men Evolutions Season 1
X-Men Evolutions Season 2
X-Men Evolutions Season 3
X-Men Evolutions Season 4

And inside the season folder they are all labels like this…

S01E01 Strategy X
S01E02 The X-Impulse
and so on.

All I have read is that these are labeled correctly. I just cant get it to recognize that it has four seasons.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

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You’ll need to get your file naming straight. With that structure, Plex is set to fail – even if you somehow got it to recognize some episodes/shows.

Naming should look like this:

TV Shows  <- the folder linked to your tv-show library
  X-Men Evolution (2000)
    Season 01
      X-Men Evolution (2000) - s01e01 - Strategy X.ext
      X-Men Evolution (2000) - s01e02 - The X-Impulse.ext
      X-Men Evolution (2000) - s01e03.ext
      ...

Notes:

  • .ext refers to the file extension of your files
  • Show name:
    • The release year is optional but can help the Plex TV Series agent to get a better match
    • If the show name contains special characters not supported by your file system / OS… just drop those characters instead of replacing them (here: :)
    • To improve the matching quality you can include an identifier to the show folder’s name (e.g. {tvdb-71168}, {imdb-tt0247827} or {tmdb-668})
  • Season folder:
    • Plex expects the folders to be named Season XX where XX is the season #. No additional text
    • Specials can be grouped as Season 00 or in a folder named Specials
  • Episode files:
    • Schema: <show name> - sXXeYY - optional text.ext
    • show name section should match the show name on the top-level

Some mistakes in your naming:

Issue Your Naming Target Remark
1. The official show name Marvel's X-Men Evolutions X-Men: Evolution Leading Marvel's and trailing s
2. Bad season folder naming X-Men Evolutions Season 1 Season 01
3. Episode files S01E01 Strategy X X-Men Evolution S01E01 Strategy X Your naming might work but should include the show name

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I changed all the files to your recommendation and still can’t get it to show up.

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I have attached pictures of the file names to make sure it looks right to you.

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I suppose Plex had already assigned the files to something else (potentially all episodes were recognized as different versions of season 1 episodes). To unlink the files, do a Plex Dance – this way Plex will no longer automatically rematch the renamed files to their original assignment.

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OMG! That worked perfectly! That was amazingly helpful! Thank you so much for your help!

I will have to remember this trick for future use! I am sure I will have to use it again!

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Your screenshot shows that you literally put .ext at the end of your file names.
.ext is just a placeholder for the actual file name extension. (The one Microsoft decided a regular user doesn’t need to see, so they hide it by default. But you can see them when you rename files.)

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Huh. When I was renaming them I didn’t see ext. Thank you for explaing that.

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