Server Version#: Player Version#: I have this show that has a spin off season, but the plex server will only find the original show in the “TV show” viewing format that allows the “Fix match” button to appear. In the “Folder” viewing format the spin off series shows the episode names and images …

[image] Subri: Not sure what I’m doing wrong here Your files for season 1 are not named like a TV show episode. Your Season nn folders should always use 2-digit numbers. https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/ Perform the Plex dance after mismatches and s…

My 1st guess would be bad embedded metadata. Though… looking at how the shows are named on TVDb, you might want to check you’re using the actual name of the show (as listed on TVDb/TMDb to avoid conflicts (TVDb is listing Sword Oratoria as Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? One the S…

Thanks for your help! Unfortunately none of these suggestions seemed to work for my issue. I tried the { } brackets, folder and file name changes nothing seemed to work. In fact it seems to have spread to other episodes D: . Any other suggestions?

[CaptureReZero] Just to add to the mystery this is also happening for half (s02e01-13) of a season of a show where the first season will appear instead of the second season :s. Not sure what I’m doing wrong here :confused:

I tried that as well, but it does not seem to fix this. Unless I need to delete and reupload them again. I will try that and get back to you.

Check the Plex dance instruction linked in Otto’s post (last line).

TV spin off series issues: 2 file paths for some reason

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Subri January 7, 2022, 5:45am 9

the plex Dance seems to be the answer! Thanks so much y’all!

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TV spin off series issues: 2 file paths for some reason

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