TV Series spread across two different root folders

[lunadmin 0]

I have like the following

hdd1\series xy\
season1
season2
season3

hdd2\series xy (new)\
season4

 

On emby i can see Series XY, only one time.
Inside i have different issues, each series with the same scheme has different errors, i will say "random"

.) Issue1: season1-3 are missing

.) Issue2: only one season from 1-3 are missing, like season 2

.) Issue3: All Episodes are there but also it mean as missing inside the folder

.) Issue4:  Most Episodes from all Seasons there, but like Episode 10-14 are missing. All are equal in naming etc, no differences, also tried there a lot of variations but no difference.

 

No Issue with the following naming, and cleanup databse from the name before.

hdd1\series xy\
season1
season2
season3

hdd2\series xy\
season4

[Carlo 4561]

Why did you set this up with 2 different folder names of "series xy" & "series xy (new)"?

If there is no series name "series xy (new)" then you don't want to use that as a name.
You would be best off using "series xy (year)" when possible as this helps with series that have similar or exact names but different dates.

You want to try and follow the TV Naming guide as closely as possible for best results:
https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html

Edited November 6, 2025 by GrimReaper
KB article link updated

[lunadmin 0]

Well i have mostly this names with Seasons inside, than i know exactly what is were, but what name i take is not seen its overwritten from the nfo.

Series Xy (1,2)

Series Xy (3,4)

[Carlo 4561]

Understood, but what works today like that may not later if you don't follow the guidelines, but having the NFO should help.

The thing to keep in mind is you're doing something not many other people do so this type of thing won't really get tested in Beta since it's not a generally advised way to setup the libs.
Hope that makes sense.

[lunadmin 0]

No that makes no sense,

The functions worked as designed, the folders are combined

if i use Series Xy (2019) and Series Xy (2020) makes no difference instead of my other names.
It has this bug that (not in all) series the bug occur like described above.

[Carlo 4561]

Again you're getting lucky because Emby uses a one year lead way in trying to match series and movies.

You really do want to use our naming conventions best you can because that's what we test against.  Anything else might work but there are no guarantees.

[lunadmin 0]

I don't think so, because Emby uses this just for checking about the name.

I can make every other folder names but then i have to identify the series by myself and will be written by the nfo.
As both folders have the same nfo, it will catch to one series - that is what luke described - and that is what works well.

As this function is working it should work with any folder names, soon the structure is correct, as it is.