I am using this: If you have multiple versions of the movie together, use the “Organized in Subdirectories” method below.
Pretty useless feature if extras stil show up as individual movies.
Did you remember to use the trailer ‘tagging’ for the filenames as defined for Local Media Assets ?
Kindly scroll down to Local Extras and Trailers
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Folder and file name structure is important. See screenshot example…
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677-Local-Media-Assets-Movies
Local Trailers and Extras
If you have trailers, interviews, behind the scenes videos, or other “extras” type content for your movies, you can add those.
Related Page: Plex Apps > Miscellaneous > Cinema Trailers & Extras
Inline
Local extras can be located alongside the main movie file in a directory named for the movie. They’re specified by using specific naming at the end of the filename. Local inline extras will be detected and used if named and stored as follows:
Movie/MovieName (Release Date)/Descriptive_Name-Extra_Type.ext
Where -Extra_Type is one of:
-behindthescenes
-deleted
-featurette
-interview
-scene
-short
-trailer
Note: The filename must end in -Extra_Type exactly. The hyphen is important and you cannot have spaces after it.
Tip!: Besides the extras themselves, you can only have the main movie file in the directory. If you have multiple versions of the movie together, use the “Organized in Subdirectories” method below.
It is recommended that you provide some sort of descriptive name for the extra before specifying the type at the end of the filename.
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As i said in first post i used this: If you have multiple versions of the movie together, use the “Organized in Subdirectories” method below.
The extras do show as extras for the movie. But they also show up as New movies. (With posters that doesn’t make sense)
(Had to edit "Deleted Extended… That one got a Gay Porn poster!!)and it even got its own Extras!! :s
Local media assets (trailers, featurettes, etc), go in the same directory with the movie, not in an 'Extras` directory below it.
Like me screenshot 
They are NOT in a “extras” folder. They are put exactly as instructed in the link and my screenshot shows.
Featurettes in its subfolder, Deleted Scenes in its subfolder, etc. As it must be when there are multiple versions of the movie.
Renaming files with what_ever_name-featurettes.ext does not work for this situation.
Again. Al lthe “extras” show up as extras for the movie. That is not the problem.
That they all show up as New movies is!
Imagine if i had 10 extra for 10 similar movies, what a go darn mess the Movies library would be.
@PunkleJones said:
Renaming files with what_ever_name-featurettes.ext does not work for this situation.
Please check your spelling? -featurette, not the plural. Not sure if your spelling error is here or on the files.
Spelling is as instructed on https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677-Local-Media-Assets-Movies under Organized in Subdirectories, Where** Extra_Directory_Type** is one of:
Behind The Scenes
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Interviews
Scenes
Shorts
Trailers
rather than quote me documentation, Kindly show me a) log files b) XML and c) actual file names.
Ok, got it sorted!
Had to rename the movie folder it self to nothing but . (I used (eg: Doctor Strange 2016 1080p)
That was a new problem for me 
.
As you can see the “extras” are gone from Recently Added, and also do not show up in the Movie library any more..
@PunkleJones I have this exact problem. Even the gay porn, lol. To fix this you simply renamed the main movie folder? So if I have “Trolls.mkv” inside the folder “Trolls (2016)” I would simply rename that folder to “Trolls”?
@zimler said:
@PunkleJones I have this exact problem. Even the gay porn, lol. To fix this you simply renamed the main movie folder? So if I have “Trolls.mkv” inside the folder “Trolls (2016)” I would simply rename that folder to “Trolls”?
omg… Completely forgot this thread 
“Trolls (2016)” should be correct or even “Trolls 2016”.
I (as far as i can remember) had “.” in the folder name “Doctors.Strange.1016” or something like that…
@PunkleJones was right. Same thing happens to me. There are two methods listed for how to organize local extras. Everyone replying seemed to ignore his description, and give him the cookie-cutter answer of the first method of organizing. When using the subdirectories method; extras show up as extras in the movie properly, but ALSO show up as additional newly added movies. It tries to match to something, and fetches weird posters. The solution is to rename the movie folder/directory (containing the movie itself and the subdirectories for the extras. I simply removed the parenthetical year from the containing folder, and it dropped the ghost movies, but retained the extras. The article/documentation should be rewritten to reflect that the containing folder should NOT be named with the year, if the subdirectories method is used, and only the movie itself should be named with the parenthetical year.
My test case was Alien: Covenant:
/Alien Covenant
Alien Covenant (2017).mkv
/Featurette
Advent.mkv
Meet Walter.mkv
Phobos.mkv
The Crossing.mkv
The Last Supper.mkv
/Behind The Scenes
Master Class Ridley Scott.mkv
/Scenes
Prologue (Extended).mkv
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This is how I do them which is per https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677-Local-Media-Assets-Movies
[chuck@lizum Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016).128]$ ls -la
total 30798744
drwxr-xr-x. 3 chuck users 4096 Sep 17 00:21 ./
drwxrwxrwx. 245 chuck users 16384 Sep 18 23:53 ../
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 282859956 Jun 23 14:43 Animating Nifflers-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 298624912 Jun 23 14:43 Animating Picket-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 425954750 Jun 23 14:43 Creating the Erumpent-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 24461759187 Jun 23 14:43 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016).mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 826868758 Jun 23 14:43 MACUSA Headquarters-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 577131476 Jun 23 14:43 Newt's Magical Case-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 863879522 Jun 23 14:43 Recreating 1920's New York City-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 686716065 Jun 23 14:43 Shaping The World-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 544930060 Jun 23 14:43 The Newsalemers-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 545836126 Jun 23 14:43 The No-Maj Baker-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 362433435 Jun 23 14:43 The Occamy-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 652334280 Jun 23 14:43 The President and The Auror-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 519502705 Jun 23 14:43 The Shaw Banquet-behindthescenes.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck users 488989663 Jun 23 14:43 Who is Newt? Interview with Eddie Redmayne-interview.mkv
[chuck@lizum Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016).129]$
Removing the year from the movie folder name worked for me! Also, when using the organizing by folder method, the extras must be in the root of the extra folder and not inside nested subfolders.
This works:
X:\Storage\MovieName
X:\Storage\MovieName\Movie-2017.mkv
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes\Extras1.mkv
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes\Extras2.mkv
This does NOT work:
X:\Storage\MovieName.2017
X:\Storage\MovieName.2017\Movie-2017.mkv
X:\Storage\MovieName.2017\Behind The Scenes
X:\Storage\MovieName.2017\Behind The Scenes\Extras1.mkv
X:\Storage\MovieName.2017\Behind The Scenes\Extras2.mkv
This does NOT work:
X:\Storage\MovieName
X:\Storage\MovieName\Movie-2017.mkv
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes\Extras1
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes\Extras1\Extras1.mkv
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes\Extras2
X:\Storage\MovieName\Behind The Scenes\Extras2\Extras2.mkv
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@PunkleJones is talking about using the subdirectories method. You’re using the inline method. Two differences:
- Featurettes IS plural in the subdirectory method, and only singular in the inline method (actually makes sense grammatically…)
- It seems you have to remove the year from the containing folder name, in order to avoid the duplicate entry situation, only when using the subdirectory method
I prefer the subdirectory method as well, because having too many files in one directory causes slow folder contents loading with gui navigation (nemo, on mint cinnamon). I have over 1800 movies, and only about 20 in folders, so navigating to the movies folder in my file explorer causes it to pause and think, to load all of the contents. (…yeah, I need to do some clean up…)
Anyway; I’m hoping the plex admins update the documentation, to reflect #2, as it seems to be pretty consistent with users using subdirectories.
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If you placed your movies each in their own directory, navigation and directory listing wouldn’t be so difficult. The link for proper organization is in my signature.
The documentation states Movie (Year) https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200381023-Naming-Movie-files
Expanding on this, you have
Movie (year)/
Movie (year).ext
Extras/
Inline extra-behindthescenes.ext
@ChuckPA What we’re song is that the documentation is WRONG. I have my files organized that way, and everything works fine. The only difference is that if the folder containing the movie and folders for extras, has the year in the folder name, each extra is parsed as an extra AND as a new feature movie. It’s a bug.
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Please PM me, referencing this thread, the exact names as you have them.
I will recreate it here.
We can then diagnose further and submit a bug report if I can reproduce cleanly
