lost one of my drives recently and am recovering from the data loss. Am trying to fill the gaps in some random episodes that I lost, and thanks to some suggestions on the forum I found the Reports plug in. When I choose the Media>Episodes report and apply the Missing Episodes filter, the report I get is in no way complete. Mostly it just shows episodes for shows I have in my library that haven't aired yet. It does include a very small number of actual missing episodes, but there are a lot missing that I know for a fact aren't there, that are not in the report. Suggestions?

ok. so. i figured it out, and it bugs me that Emby thinks like this because i'm used to Kodi. This was happening because Emby doesn't really add a show or a movie to the library, it adds a folder and files to the library with metadata tagged onto those folders. Let me explain. Because of how scrapers work, I am super particular about file organization and how my files are named. However when I am downloading/seeding files, they can't be renamed until I am finished seeding them (which I do for long periods to maintain a ratio with my community). For this reason, I have Shows separated. I'll use bob's burgers as an example. I have my primary drive pool with my library in it, which has bob's burgers seasons 1-7 in it all named properly. Then I have a separate folder that contains new incoming episodes since the naming conventions are often weird, or the files are compressed into many rar parts. this folder is torrents\shows\bobs burgers\season 8. After my seeding ratio is finished, I rename them properly and move them to the permanent location. Emby doesn't add the show bob's burgers to my library, and then add episodes to that listing. It adds folders and associates those folders with a show. So to Emby, there are 2 bob's burgers. One of them is missing season 1-7 and one of them is missing season 8, so it was showing I was missing all episodes. This annoys me because i know movies are going to work like this too. So when I am downloading a movie into my torrents folder, I won't be able to add that movie to a collection until after I finish seeding it and move it to it's permanent location, because Emby doesn't add movies or shows and puts that movie in a collection, it adds folders and files and adds them by filepath to the collection. In Kodi, the paths didn't matter, but I guess that was because the Movie Sets were scraper based and file paths didn't matter, where as Emby collections are user created and are associated with files at a specific path and not related to the metadata. For shows it was the same. Kodi didn't care where the files were, Bob's burgers had one listing with episodes in different locations. I guess my solution for this is I'll have to experiment with new torrent clients to find one that will allow me to rename the files while downloading, and forego having a separate torrents folder. the closed community i use only allows specific clients, so hopefully i can find one that works and lets me do this.

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