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Automatically merge TV folders not working - sooperduck - 2025-05-15
Hi!
I have a TV folder with "Automatically merge programmes that are spread across multiple folders" checked but it's still showing those shows as 2 separate shows.
For example I have 2 folders for Star Trek TNG:
D:\Bluray-TV\Star Trek The Next Generation (1987)
D:\Blurays-TV-Kids\Star Trek The Next Generation (1987)
Both follow the same per-season folder naming too e.g. "Star Trek The Next Generation (1987) - Season 1 S01"
This is so I can separate out kid-friendly episodes for my Kids user account but I want to see the complete series in my own account. It also happens with Star Trek Voyager which I've done the same with.
I've tried:
- Manually typing matching metadata for both series (naming, tvdb, tmdb, tvmaze IDs etc)
- Refresh and replace metadata scan
- Moving the folders out, rescanning metadata, putting folders back and rescanning again
- Following advice in this post https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-folder-combining-not-working-for-some-tv-shows
- Selecting both versions of the show and using "Group Versions". This just results in a blue spinning circle with nothing ultimately happening.
None of this has worked unfortunately.
My Server Version is 10.10.7 - running on Windows 10
Same result on every client I try; Web, iPhone, Apple TV, Google TV.
Looking forward to any advice, thanks!
RE: Automatically merge TV folders not working - theguymadmax - 2025-05-16
The way are trying to merge doesn't work for TV Series in Jellyfin. You need to enable the below setting in the Series library, accessed from your dashboard:
Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders
Series that are spread across multiple folders within this library will be automatically merged into a single series.
Then re-scan your library.