Home Video folders showing as a single item

[AndyBak 17]

I have the following folder and file structure for my home videos in Emby:-

 

2015

 \ Movie A.mp4

 \ Movie B.avi

 \ Movie C.mov

2016

 \ Movie A.mp4

 \ Movie B.avi

 \ Movie C.mov

2017

 \ Movie A.mp4

 \ Movie B.avi

 \ Movie C.mov

 

Now some of these folders work as expected, shown as a folder and then when I go into them I have thumbnails for all the various files, whereas a couple of the folders show as a single file and then when selected I have the option to select which version of the file I wish to play (with these versions being all the various files within the folder).

 

Any ideas why this is happening? I just want them all to show as folders with multiple files in them.

 

Thanks

Andy

[Happy2Play 9784]

What is the actual naming scheme?  But what you are describing sounds like the multi-versioning.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/59502-date-in-file-name-triggering-multi-version

[Luke 42085]

Yes it sounds like you're having a collision with multi-version naming and/or multi-part naming. 
 

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks !

[AndyBak 17]

Thanks guys, as an example one of the folders '2018' contains the following 4 files:-

 

2018-02-28 Snow Day.mp4

2018-04-15 Duxford Visit.mp4

2018-06-03 Little Dude.mp4

2018-08-11 Adventure Island.mp4

 

All with different sizes/timestamps etc.

 

Thanks

[ebr 16195]

Yep, that matches our naming convention for multi-version items (starts with exact folder name + "-" and then anything else).

[AndyBak 17]

Oh well that's annoying, is there anyway to disable this functionality at library level?

 

What's strange is its only doing in for some of the folders and they all follow the same naming convention, although I wonder if that is something to do with the amount of files within the folder (some have a lot more).

 

I suppose the quickest fix will be to rename the folders, but I can't think of anything more appropriate than what they already are. 

[ryandavidg 30]

Could possibly call the folders 16,17,18 instead of 2016,2017,2018, leaving the individual files with the full year in the title

[Luke 42085]

There is currently no way to disable it but i agree that we should add a way.

[AndyBak 17]

Cool, for now I've just renamed the folders to 2K18..etc.

[Happy2Play 9784]

Same as I posted in the other topic, why have this feature apply to Home Videos content type at all?

[Luke 42085]

Because some would like to be able to use it.