WIN10 Plex Server will create an item then immediately delete it for my TS recordings

Plex Media Server
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I noticed when I try to add my TS recordings to my Plex Library that it will first create an item and then immediately delete the item. I then just rename the file and it recreates it just fine without deleting it. Here is one example from the Alerts Log for an episode of Survivor I recorded. This only occurs with recorded TS files and the rest of the media I add is fine.

Anyone else have this issue and if a known bug how do I resolve it?

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How are you recording the files, and how are they organized (folder structure) and named?

I do something similar with NextPVR (record with NextPVR) and then add the TS files to a dedicated library. So it should work.

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I do the same using NextPVR and in this case as I was not creating an archive of the season but just place it my Video Files folder where I just watch the episode once and then manually delete it as the TS files are Too large for archiving. If I were to archive any of the recordings I would reencode them to Hevc.

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Whatever your final intent, the files need to be named and organized according to Plex’s guidelines.

You can have NextPVR do this for you, pretty simply in the NextPVR general settings.:

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(These are my exact settings which work perfectly with Plex.)

You don’t need to re-encode them. Just name and organize them as Plex expects.

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Only point I was making about reencoding to HEVC was to save space and my NextPVR settings are identical to yours.

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I understand. That wasn’t the main point I was trying to make, however.

Your file naming and organization are extremely important for media to be recognized and for correct metadata to be applied. I don’t record Survivor, but here’s an example of a series recorded by NextPVR and added to one of my Plex libraries:

dvr
└── tv  <--- My library points here; the name of this folder is not important
    └── Star Trek Deep Space Nine
        ├── Season 01
        │   ├── Star Trek Deep Space Nine.S01E01.Emissary.ts
        │   ├── Star Trek Deep Space Nine.S01E02.A Man Alone.ts
        │   ├── Star Trek Deep Space Nine.S01E03.Past Prologue.ts
        │   ├── Star Trek Deep Space Nine.S01E04.Babel.ts
                ...

If your settings match mine from above, NextPVR should create the show/season/episode structure for you; you just need to place the whole tree in the library’s top-level scan folder (where you point your library).

For Survivor in particular, it may be useful to add the series’ release year to the folder name, in parentheses. For example, If I were to add it to the above it would be “Star Trek Deep Space Nine (1993)” instead of just the show name.

This will help disambiguate the show from other potential matches which might be causing duplication with already-existing shows.

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I should have made it clear, the Files-Videos Library I am saving this to is set to “Other Videos” using the Plex Personal Media agent that does not use metadata. I never have this issue if I were to save the file to my “TV Series” Library which is formatted as you stated. Like I said it’s a weird one for why it deletes the item after it just created it. :man_shrugging: