Will not recognise a TV show

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I am having issues with V the Mini series not being picked up in Plex. The folder is named correctly but it will not appear in Plex. Any ideas?

https://thetvdb.com/series/v

Aug 17, 2020 11:14:43.537 [0x7fd34e2b3700] Debug — Request: [127.0.0.1:59218 (Loopback)] PUT /activities/b7b72bae-1cd4-4ce2-b913-114136621492?percentComplete=%2B4%2E30434799&subtitle=V%20-%20The%20Final%20Battle%20%281984%29 (11 live) GZIP Signed-in Token (CCCMediaDevice)

Aug 17, 2020 11:14:43.537 [0x7fd376698700] Debug — Completed: [127.0.0.1:59218] 200 PUT /activities/b7b72bae-1cd4-4ce2-b913-114136621492?percentComplete=%2B4%2E30434799&subtitle=V%20-%20The%20Final%20Battle%20%281984%29 (11 live) GZIP 0ms 166 bytes

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No file names? Cool.

Filebot Named these - and I still had to Fix Match:

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Plex could only find the 2005 version.
I used the TVDB ID# - then it was forced to do the right thing.

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Thank you for your reply. Im a newbie here. Can you explain what l need to do. I have Filebot.

thanks

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Let Filebot name and structure them - then show us what it did - like I did…

Then Fix Match (at the Show Level) when Plex can’t find the right one.

Easy…lol

BTW:
Just now - not 10 seconds ago - Filebot fixed this show, again, after TVDB decided to re-arrange the episodes since the last time TVDB re-arranged the episodes. I had already Fixed Match some time ago - so this time ‘Refresh Metadata’ just repaired the Season placements - all the ones I have are now in Specials since I’ve been waiting for Season 1 for several decades now…I’m ready tho… lol

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Great, I just ran through what you suggested and l can now see V. This has been annoying for me a long time.

If I was to rename the folder as the series ID would that also work?

thank you so much

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This is what my tv shows now appear as, although only one showing

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Plex will not recognized files if named that way (e.g. V - Special # or V - #x##).
Based on the naming schema used by Plex, the folder structure / file names should look like this:

TV Shows
  V (1984)
    Specials    <- alternatively you can call this "Season 00"
      V (1984) - s00e01 - The Original Miniseries.mkv
      V (1984) - s00e03 - The Final Battle.mkv
    Season 01
      V (1984) - s01e01 - Liberation Day.mkv
      V (1984) - s01e02 - Dreadnought.mkv
      ...

https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/

After fixing those names, you might need to do a “Plex Dance” to make Plex forget it already catalogued that series incorrectly.

Edit: looks like 1x01 is an empty file (size is 0)

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HI,

that was the naming conversion that filebot gave the files. I will manual adjust.

thank you

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There’s a thread discussing the schema to apply to FileBot so it produces file paths / names that Plex will recognize

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You can use {Plex} or look at the available Formats and pick the correct one:

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‘Out of the Box’ FB doesn’t use “S01E01”, but that’s easy enough to change.
FB can do a whole lot of other ‘Plex Friendly’ things as well, with the proper commands:

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^That^ creates a Movie and it’s Folder, Like this:

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All in [Brackets] is ignored and so to Plex, that file/folder name is - Perfect (more perfect than that murder).

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