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dcruff
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I have a large library of over 5,000 movies on an Unraid Server.  Everything runs smoothly for the most part, but in a recent addition of movies, I noticed that one of my movies (Future, The (2011)) was not being recognized and didn't show up in the library.  I tried moving it's folder to another recognized library folder, but it still did not show up.  Finally, I changed the name to something unrelated, and the item showed up in my library with the new wrong name.  I then edited used the 'Identify' to accurately pull up the correct metadata.  Then I went back to the storage location, renamed the folder and movie back to the correct title and did a rescan.  Now the data is correct and the item is in the library where it should be.
This caused me to think that I may have other movies that are not showing up in the library, as I don't always go back and check to see if a newly added movie actually made it.
Is there some report or simple way to audit the library to see if all of the movies in the file system are actually recognized and added to the library?

Neminem
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Movie Naming

I use this folder nameing and file nameing

Folder : 300 (2007) {TmdbId-1271}

File : 300 (2007) {TmdbId-1271}.mvk

Adding that TmdbId really helps Emby to find the right metadata.

And changing the name to (Future, The (2011)) does not help. 

The movie is named (The Future (2011))

Guessing its this movie The Future (2011) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

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Hi there, how are your files named and organized?

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OK I would at least recommend putting the year at the end of the folder name just like the user above has mentioned. I would always do that for movies.

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Is there some report or simple way to audit the library to see if all of the movies in the file system are actually recognized and added to the library?

if it got scanned it's in the library. but the metadata is incorrect, thus making it harder to find. better folder naming can help avoid this.

or you can switch to table view, enable the file name column, and that can help you find it.

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Well, I've been doing this for many, many years and now I always add the year in parentheses.  As for putting "The" after a comma on the name, that has never been a problem before and I tried it as "The Future (2011) to see if that would fix it, but it didn't.  I now know how to rig it to fix the problem after the fact, and, to my knowledge, this problem has been rare.  I'm just worried that there might be stragglers in my large library that I have missed over the years.  With this current problem, the movie wasn't showing up in 'Latest Movies' or in the Library under 'The Future' or 'Future, The' which makes me think that it was not even in the library.  Once I changed it to something innocuous like 'The Future is Fun', it showed up in library and 'Latest Movies'.  Then I fixed it through 'Identify' and 'Edit Metadata'.  Now it's as if there was never a problem.  AI thought it was a corrupted metadata entry.
Now, I just want to find an easy way to compare the files on the disk with the library to see if there are missing entries.

 

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