Two TV shows with same name (different years) - one not showing

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Plex has gone ‘round the bend’ with this TV Show naming thing and it’s causing no shortage of pain and suffering all around.

Try this - experience (and testing) dictates it will work:

TV Shows
----Taken (2002)
--------Season 1
------------Taken (2002) s01e01.avi
------------Taken (2002) s01e02.avi
------------etc.
----Taken (2017)
--------Season 1
------------Taken (2017) s01e01.mkv
------------Taken (2017) s01e02.mkv
------------etc.

A Plex Dance® is required:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove shows from library - Yep, the whole things - both of them. It’s a ‘do-over’.
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance - at this point compliance is an adventure.
  6. replace corrected show into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

The above naming will work. I had the ‘old’ Taken aboard, matched before Plex lost it’s mind, but just now re-matched my old version and the new version with a ‘test show’ just for you:

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