Weird Star Trek/Star Trek Discovery partial season merge

[Chiefmas 40]

I'm moving where some of my files are stored, keeping the structure and naming, so that shouldn't be an issue, but I have noticed something weird happened.

ToS seasons all have more episodes then the Discovery seasons, and Emby has taken the ToS episodes and inserted those episodes that are higher numbered then Discovery episodes into the Discovery seasons. Star Trek itself has completely disappeared from the library. The folders are in completely separate paths, with different series folder names as well, so it doesn't seem like the structure should be causing this.

I did a re-scan of the library, but it still seems to think those episodes belong there, and TOS hasn't re-appeared in the TV library. I'm not sure what's going on. Any suggestions?

 

[GrimReaper 4740]

Name series folders

Star Trek (1966) [tvdbid=77526]

and 

Star Trek - Discovery (2017) [tvdbid=328711]

Rescan.

[Chiefmas 40]

Hmm that didn't quite get me there on its own, but it got me far enough. It wasn't reading the tvdbid out of the name for Star Trek, but once I forced it to identify the series, that sorted it out.

Thanks!

 

[Luke 42079]

52 minutes ago, Chiefmas said:

Hmm that didn't quite get me there on its own, but it got me far enough. It wasn't reading the tvdbid out of the name for Star Trek, but once I forced it to identify the series, that sorted it out.

Thanks!

 

It does read it, but maybe you already had a series nfo or xml file containing a different value. In that case it gets read first from the folder name, but later gets replaced by the value in the  metadata file.

[Chiefmas 40]

50 minutes ago, Luke said:

It does read it, but maybe you already had a series nfo or xml file containing a different value. In that case it gets read first from the folder name, but later gets replaced by the value in the  metadata file.

I suppose it's possible, I have had some nfo type files in stuff I've had a long time, WDTV units used to write one(these would have been a decade ago or more though), but it was named differently. That said, none of those are present, as Discovery is newer, and ToS I only picked up recently. Does Emby try to read any nfo file or just tvshow.nfo? Also, would it have overwritten one that was already present? And would it have removed others it found? There's no other XML or NFO files present in those folders.

The only nfo files I can find anywhere in my library look like Emby wrote them, unless Plex did so. However, that's something I think I only turned on when I switched to Emby, otherwise. Would there be info in the logs regarding using an XML/NFO file that was present? I don't think there was any other metadata files in the folders previously.

Thanks!

 

[Luke 42079]

For the series, it's tvshow.nfo and/or series.xml. It would show up in the log but only if debug logging was enabled at the time of the scan. I would just check the contents of the folders.

[Chiefmas 40]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

For the series, it's tvshow.nfo and/or series.xml. It would show up in the log but only if debug logging was enabled at the time of the scan. I would just check the contents of the folders.

Ok! Well I didn't see anything that suggested that was the problem, and I didn't have debugging turned on during any of the earlier scans, so I won't be able to find out what happened before. Regardless, it's working now, so I won't worry about it unless I see something similar happen again.

Thanks!