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Plex wants everybody to believe that ‘Refresh All Metadata’ (under the dots next to the library in the left pane of Plexweb) does what you want, but that ancient bundle bug prevents that in some (many, most, all) cases.

This however will absolutely, positively ‘Refresh All Metadata’ for select items:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie(s) from library
  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 - or you’re doing this to ‘Refresh All Metadata’.
  6. replace corrected show/movie(s) into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

If you want to really ‘Refresh All Metadata’ for an entire library…

Absolute Library Metadata Refresh™:

Delete Library
Update Libraries
Empty Trash
Clean Bundles
Create New Library

Guaranteed to work - every single time.

lol

Note: When ‘Absolute Library Metadata Refresh™’ is performed and you are Generating Video Preview Thumbnails this could/will take a while. I employed ‘Absolute Library Metadata Refresh™’ on my TV Sci-Fi Library last night - 5 hours and 30 minutes later the CPU blowers spun down.

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