Ubuntu Plex recognized everything correctly except for my TV shows

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.25.5.5492
Player Version#: 4.69.1 (?)

PLEX/Linux newb here. I moved a drive from Windows to Linux and plugged it (an 8BG exfat USB external HDD) into an Ubuntu PC, Linux mounted the drive, and PLEX recognized all of my movies, clips, pictures, and music that were named according to PLEX guidelines.

My TV shows on the other hand are lumped together into meaningless categories. I know I won’t have all of the TV show information I entered in the Windows PLEX system, that’s OK.

I’m wondering what setting, or procedure I missed to get Ubuntu PLEX to recognize my TV shows that are already in their properly name files and folders.

I know I’m probably doing something dumb, so if someone could point me in the right direction (maybe what I should be reading), I’d greatly appreciate it.

Please keep in mind that I’m a PLEX/Linux newb, so highly technical explanations of either will go right over my head!

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How does your structure look like?

/mount/point/
    TV/
      Series Name/
         Season 1/
           Series Name - SxxExx - Optional title.ext

Does Plex point to /mount/point/TV or did go too deep or not deep enough?

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Thanks for the reply, the mount point is /mount/point/PLEX, not /mount/point/PLEX/TV

Whenever I plug the USB into Ubuntu it's auto-mounted to /media/<user_name>/PLEX8TB

'PLEX8TB' is the drive label.

The structure is:

    TV Shows/
      Series Name (4-digit year) /
         Season 01/
           Series Name (4-digit year)  - S01E01 - Optional title.ext
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Whenever I plug the USB into Ubuntu it’s auto-mounted to /media/<user_name>/PLEX8TB

This is what you need to fix.

The automounter mounts with exclusive access to your username ONLY.
Username plex will not be allowed to read the data no matter any permissions you might apply.

To rememdy this, define the mount point in /etc/fstab
Linux supports mount by UUID= and LABEL= identification. This works well for USB devices because the /dev/sd* letter will change each time it’s removed and reinserted.

In this example, I show how to handle different cases.

Adapt to suit your needs;

  1. Pick a mount point which doesn’t interfere with any existing directories
  2. use blkid to get the UUID info.
  3. Create the /etc/fstab entry to find it.

When done, the drive will always appear at the same mount point each time WITH the permissions you’ve set and Plex will be able to access it.

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