I posted about this eariler. I decided to make a video showing my problem that perhaps I’m not putting into words correctly. Please help me fix this 
Thanks
You are doing exactly - word for word identically - the same thing I did on day one of my Plex experience and it was absolutely, positively wrong.
Here’s what you have (we’ll leave out the season folders and episodes for clarity):
A TV Show Library/<---------- Plex aimed here
…Mike and Mike/ <---------and here
…Ike and Ike/ <-----------and here
…Bill and Bill/ <----------and here
…ect.
as I tried to explain in your other thread - that is wrong. As outlined in the documentation, that admittedly is a little vague in this area, but has been suggested at least once here is the proper way:
A TV Show LIbrary <-------- Plex aimed here. Stop. Do not add Show Folders to your library’s folder list.
…Mike and Mike/
…Ernie and Mo/
…Gomer’s Pyle/
…etc
Here’s a SS of one of my TV Show Libraries:
Here is the Library Editor/Creator:
All Plex wants is that main TV Show Library Folder. The Shows come along automatically. You can add a different TV Show Library folder - on another drive perhaps if you want to join two libraries under one TV Show Roof, but you’d only add the other TV Show Library folder - not the individual shows.
In my case above it would be, for instance:
H:\TV Shows
G:\TV Shows
I wouldn’t do that myself, but many do and it’s the proper way.
Now you ‘could’ go in there and just remove all those Show Folders and it ‘may’ come up working fine, but for my money I’d start from scratch - and I’d also do this from PlexWeb - not PMP (if you have one of those).
- Delete (in the library editor via that Big Red Delete Button) that entire library - that will Nuke it down to bare ground.
- update libraries
- clean bundles
- empty trash
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <-------- update libraries, clean bundles, empty trash - once again check all names and structuring to be in compliance with Plex Naming Standards
- add the TV Show Library Folder in a brand new library
- get a cup of joe while you wait for the new Library to be created and populated.
OHH! so in your library editor , instead of adding each TV show folder individually, you just add the TV Show Folder, in my case F:\TV Shows…(like in your last pic)…I totally misunderstood that from your last post. So what’s the best way to undo what I’ve done wrong? If I delete all the individual show folders from the TV show editor, clean trash, bundles, go back to library editor and add TV show folder only (just as in your last pic there) …I’m fearing the 2 offending shows will still remain in Plex even after I’ve completely removed all shows…What steps did you take exactly when you were doing it my way and started doing it correctly? Did you uninstall plex and start over or what? I appreciate your quick response and I’m sorry I misunderstood
You could delete the whole tv show library in Plex and then re-create it afterwards.
Your view-states will survive this if you choose the same metadata agent for the recreated library.
Yes Thanks - I almost deleted that library but I’m glad I didn’t since I now know I’ve been doing it wrong all along and would have ended up doing it wrong all over again. I should have realized if I can point the entire movie folder instead of doing each individual movie , that I should have done the same thing with TV shows. Not sure what I was thinking -
Speaking of deleting the TV Show library - To re-create another TV show library, I simply click to add a new library, choose TV shows, and that’s it, right?
@mark40511 said:
To re-create another TV show library, I simply click to add a new library, choose TV shows, and that’s it, right?
Yep.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288926-Creating-Libraries
I agree with Otto - Nuke and rebuild from scratch that library. No need to re-install Plex or anything (we hope). 
Don’t be sorry for misunderstanding and don’t take personally what comes off my keyboard as impatience - 'cause it might be, but it’s unintentional.
No I appreciate any help and that is what I’ll do, delete the library and start from scratch. But as I sit here thinking about one other thing that just popped into my mind. Since individual tv show folders aren’t added to the library, but just the F:\TV Shows , what do you do when you want to delete a particular TV show from Plex , just merely delete it from the drive and it deletes from Plex? I think and HOPE that’s my last question unless I run into trouble doing this later. I think it will be fine though now that I have an understanding of what I was doing wrong.
scratch that question - I just found the support article on deleting media… It’s also interesting that it states that if you enable media deletion, that not only will it delete it from plex, but from the actual storage location.
Yep, but if memory serves you still have that last chance 'cause it puts it in the Recycle Bin. If I want to delete something I fire up Windows Explorer and delete it from the library. I have ‘local’ clients that drink… I don’t need any ‘misunderstandings’ when it comes to my media and if ‘Action in the North Atlantic (1943)’ comes up missing the murder rate in my village is going up by at least one.
Yea I don’t think I’ll be using media deletion at all. My total tv show count is 106 tv shows. I did as instructed and deleted tv show library, created a new one - went through my TV show folder with a fine tooth comb before adding it to the TV library - everything is downloading and processing but holy crap this is going to take forever (LOL). Anyway , I really appreciate the help
@mark40511 said:
everything is downloading and processing but holy crap this is going to take forever (LOL).
Do you know about Filebot ?
Yea it’s awesome. I use it all the time.
Ok, so I started the new library around 6ish PM and it finished around 1 am. Total of 106 complete series TV shows - Everything downloaded PERFECTLY. The problems I had are completely gone, and it really wasn’t a difficult task at all - just took time for the library to update itself. I will mention that in the future I may have to do this all over AGAIN and here’s why: I don’t have my TV folders separated into seasons. For example, Three’s Company - when you open that folder ,you see ALL episodes (named with filebot of course). I really dreaded the thought of going through 106 TV shows and separating each season with its own folder - so hopefully that won’t be an issue - Plex didn’t seem to mind as it separated the seasons perfectly fine - However, if something starts acting up, I will know what I will have to do - separate the seasons. Anyway - thanks for all the help - this can be closed.
I add season folders often. My method is to remove the entire season of episodes, update, clean bundles, empty trash. Create the Season folder, put the episodes in it, drop it in the library, update library.
I would recommend to do the entire show at once, but, in a pinch, you can do one season at a time.
Optimize the database often as well. I would certainly set that as a scheduled task once a week if you haven’t already.
@mark40511 said:
I really dreaded the thought of going through 106 TV shows and separating each season with its own folder
Erm, Filebot can do that automatically too.
ok I will look up how to do that. I had no clue. I know you can change the formats to s01e01 or 2x01 etc, and hold shift while searching for show if it can’t find a match. I figured there were other numerous things it could probably do, but I had no idea it could do that. Thanks
@mark40511 said:
I had no idea it could do that.
If you use the new {plex} placeholder, it happens automatically.
if you have an ‘old style’ format string, the following will achieve the same:
D:\Shows\{n}\{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s.pad(2)}\{n} - {episode.special ? 'S00E'+special.pad(2) : s00e00} - {t.replaceAll(/[`´‘’ʻ]/, /'/).replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/).replacePart(', Part $1')}{'.'+lang}
This moves all renamed shows to their final storage under D:\Shows\, including creating proper ‘Season 0x’ subfolders.
(this is made for Windows, if you use a different system, you have to adapt the drive letters and back slashes to the different conventions)
Yes I use windows and I see exactly what you’re talking about in filebot under “format”
will making the change adding season subfolders require a re-scan? Thanks
@mark40511 said:
Yes I use windows and I see exactly what you’re talking about in filebot under “format”
will making the change adding season subfolders require a re-scan? Thanks
I think so, since the storage location of the files changes. So think about using this only for new shows.
