Some movies go into "shows" folder

[Il1kethestars]

I'm definitely a beginner at this so please bear with me.

My setup: windows 11, rclone and plex_debrid running fine

Sometimes when I add a movie to my watchlist in Plex it'll do everything as it should except it will put the movie into the "shows" virtual folder. This causes issues with plex and it won't recognize it correctly. I'm not positive about this but it seems that when it happens, those movies have multiple files (extras, outtakes, etc along with the actual movie file) so I'm not sure if that plays a role in this problem happening. Most recently this has happened with The Abyss and Django.

Thanks for any tips!

[dariokan82]

Hey there,

I am having the same issue - did you ever figure out a solution? Thanks!

[Il1kethestars]

Hey fellow debrider, In a way I did figure out a solution but in a way it's more "avoiding the problem" than anything. There may be a correct, or more "direct", solution out there but I haven't found it. What I've begun doing is a bit more tedious but I haven't had the aforementioned issues and it's solved other minor annoyances as well. I have moved away from using the watchlist button as the sole way to get my movies/shows and I've accepted that I have to be more "hands on" with adding movies/shows. I'll explain the process that I've found to be most effective: - Start by adding the thing to my watchlist. - I'll immediately pull up the realdebrid (X:) drive and see if it's added the media to the correct folder. - If it grabbed a good version and put it into the correct folder, the gods have smiled upon me this day --> remove from watchlist. This ensures that the script doesn't continue to look for that media even if I have it. Before I started removing things from the watchlist, I noticed that sometimes I'd end up with multiple copies of the same thing, sometimes up to 5 copies...I don't know why this would happen. - If there are problems I'll have to get it in a more "manual" way. Here are most of the biggest problems that I've encountered: media goes into the wrong folder (just like you're asking about); it grabbed "extras" and plex gets confused, then puts those extras in place of the actual media (this happens with shows most often); the quality of the media is absolute shit; the format of the media is bad (even though I set up rules in the plex_debrid script, sometimes it'll still grab wonky formats), etc... - My workflow for getting the media manually: - Remove the media from my watchlist, go into real-debrid (I've begun using debridmediamanager (dmm), it has a far more user friendly UI) and remove the bad version. - To find the media manually, I sometimes just go to torrent sites and search it up. If there's one that is high quality and has quite a few seeds, I'll just copy the magnet into real-debrid/dmm, unselect everything except the video file(s). * If you aren't familiar with this process, let me know and I can walk you through it. * - If that version is already cached in rd, I'll open (X:) and be sure it went into the correct folder, usually it does, then I'll refresh my plex library and test it. - If it's not cached, goes into the wrong folder, or plex hates that version, I'll just remove it from rd and delete it from plex, then find a different torrent. - An alternative that I've found really slick is to use the search function built into qbittorrent. I don't actually download anything with qbit, I'll just search for media, right click the one I want, and inspect it - which brings me to the torrent website. This was a lot. If you have any questions or if I wasn't clear on anything, feel free to let me know and I'd be happy to walk you through my process.

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[dariokan82]

You're a saint! Thanks for writing this up for me.

Funnily enough, I've started looking into DMM today - do you use it self-hosted or via the website?

Re: your workflow, it makes sense. I have noticed that PlexDebrid often fudges the TV Shows (in my case, it keeps them in the "default" mount folder; my solution for this has been to add this folder to the "TV Shows" section of Plex).

But, in the past few weeks, I've noticed some films ending up in the TV Show folder. My solution so far has been downloading the movie I wanted to watch and that was it. But I use a similar workflow as yours for when PlexDebrid doesn't find any media - I just add it manually to Real Debrid and it magically appears.

Fingers crossed it gets solved in a future release, and thanks again for your kind answer!

[Il1kethestars]

You're very welcome! This has been quite the learning process and I know that any guidance can make a big difference. DMM is so helpful! I just go to the website to use it. I'm not sure what you mean by using it self-hosted. Maybe that doesn't pertain to me because I have my plex and plex-debrid stuff on my daily use pc. I agree, TV shows seem to be the most difficult for everything to get right. My goal is usually to only resort to downloading things that I love and really want to actually have a "real" copy of. I think that the biggest part of this whole process for me was realizing that it's not going to be perfect and there will always be some fiddling around and manual corrections. This setup does make a lot of things much easier and is amazing for preserving disk space but I just accepted that there will always have to be effort, it's just shifted slightly by using plex-debrid. Good luck and happy torrenting!

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On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 6:41 AM dariokan82 ***@***.***> wrote: You're a saint! Thanks for writing this up for me. Funnily enough, I've started looking into DMM today - do you use it self-hosted or via the website? Re: your workflow, it makes sense. I have noticed that PlexDebrid often fudges the TV Shows (in my case, it keeps them in the "default" mount folder; my solution for this has been to add this folder to the "TV Shows" section of Plex). But, in the past few weeks, I've noticed some films ending up in the TV Show folder. My solution so far has been downloading the movie I wanted to watch and that was it. But I use a similar workflow as yours for when PlexDebrid doesn't find any media - I just add it manually to Real Debrid and it magically appears. Fingers crossed it gets solved in a future release, and thanks again for your kind answer! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#634 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BFBBTSUPMGGSWXHEISJHATTZADWJJAVCNFSM6AAAAABCNZL7ESVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4TEOBVGM3DI> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>