# Wrong movie indexing

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/wrong-movie-indexing/327598 "2018-11-05T01:45:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/wrong-movie-indexing/327598/2 "2018-11-05T02:26:16Z")

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> [@Need some help Plex not naming Movies correctly 10% of the time](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-some-help-plex-not-naming-movies-correctly-10-of-the-time/323807/5):
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> Plex tries very hard to match movies and often succeeds even though the naming is very wrong but there is no guarantee that future badly named movies will be matched. The only way to get even close to good consistent matching is to follow Plex’s naming conventions exactly. You can even add a bit to help Plex. All my movies are named: MovieName (Year released) (IMDB ID).ext The MovieName is exactly as it appears in TMdb and the optional IMDB ID is the id for that movie as it appears in the IM…

You might have to [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) the files after making any name changes.

The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item

- move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at so Plex does not “see” it anymore
- update library ( scan for media items )
- empty trash
- clean bundles
- double check naming schema and move files back
- update library

If the problem persists, check the metadata inside the file via [MediaInfo](https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) or similar tools. Make sure the Movie Name field also has the year and not just the movie name.

Example:

```auto
General
Complete name : N:\....\Movies\Terminator 2_ Judgment Day (1991)\Terminator 2_ Judgment Day (1991).m4v
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
Duration : 2 h 32 min
Movie name : Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

```

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