# TV Shows Organization

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [December 24, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755 "2019-12-24T14:42:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dmooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dmooch](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dmooch)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755/1 "2019-12-24T14:42:13Z")

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I recently added a 10 episode season of a TV show. They sit correctly in a folder. I was able to get Plex to match the show and all it’s episodes but for some reason Plex is also creating a separate match for 1 episode from that show. So when I look at my library it has season 1 of the show with 10 episodes and then next to it is also episode 5. Any idea what that’s happening?

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**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755/2 "2019-12-24T16:59:49Z")

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do you have your show files named correctly exactly as stated @ [https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/)

/data/tv/showname (year)/season 01/showname (year) - s01e01 - episodename.ext

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**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755/3 "2019-12-24T17:05:31Z")

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Only seen that happen when a file has embedded metadata that conflicts with what it found online and creates a new show for it with just that episode file. Like if the title of show is spelled slightly different in embedded metadata

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**Author:** ![Dmooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dmooch](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dmooch)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755/4 "2019-12-26T17:39:22Z")

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Thank you all for the support and suggestions. I was able to get it to read correctly!

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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:** [March 25, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-shows-organization/513755/5 "2020-03-25T17:39:22Z")

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