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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Media Scanning & Identification Index error

     
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    Index error

    Indexed shows as seasons of another show
    dr0p5
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    #1
    2025-12-18, 01:06 PM
    Hey, so recently started using jellyfin and for Movies it worked realy well with only a little bit of reworking. (Surprised that I had some movies up to 5 times in different folders)
    Linux Docker
    DSM 7.3.2-86009
    jellyfin 10.11.5

    But for Anime an TV shows the index is a complete disaster and it seems I cant correct it.
    The file structure on my NAS is:

    TVshows
    |
    A
    ├── Series Name A (2010)
    │  |
    │  ├── Season 01
    │  │  ├── Series Name A S01E01-E02.mkv
    │  │  ├── Series Name A S01E03.mkv
    │  │  └── Series Name A S01E04.mkv
    │  └── Season 02
    │      ├── Series Name A S02E01.mkv
    │      ├── Series Name A S02E02.mkv
    └── Series Name B (201Nerd-face
    |       ├── Season 01
    |       ├── Series Name B S01E01.mkv
    |       └── Series Name B S01E02.mkv
    |       └── Season 02
    |      ├── Series Name B S02E01-E02.mkv
    |      └── Series Name B S02E03.mkv
    |
    B
    |── Series Name A (2010)
    │  |
    │  ├── Season 01
    │  │  ├── Series Name A S01E01-E02.mkv
    │  │  ├── Series Name A S01E03.mkv
    │  │  └── Series Name A S01E04.mkv
    │  └── Season 02
    │      ├── Series Name A S02E01.mkv
    │      ├── Series Name A S02E02.mkv
    └── Series Name B (201Nerd-face
    |   ├── Season 01
    |   |  ├── Series Name B S01E01.mkv
    |   |  └── Series Name B S01E02.mkv
    |  └── Season 02
    |      ├── Series Name B S02E01-E02.mkv
    |      └── Series Name B S02E03.mkv

    But Jellyfin indexed that like

    Shows
    ├── Bones (there is no such Folder or any episode of this show on my server)
    │    ├── Blackadder
    │    ├── Buck Rogers
    │    ├ ─ Banshee
    │    ├── Season 01
    │    ├── Season 02

    Also 5 Entries for ES Welcome to derry (which i also dont have) each with different other shows linked as seasons.
    So it practical indexed multiple TV shows as Seasons of another show (even the meta data)
    I tried to correct it by renaming the Folders on the server by
    Series Name (year) [external id] 
    and clicked on scan and update the meta data but it didn't change anything and shows the same.

    Is there an mostly easy way to correct this?
    Emailluka
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    #2
    2025-12-18, 01:13 PM
    The Problem will probably be the Subfolders A/B/C/..
    Your files should be organized like described in the documentation:
    https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...ganization

    If you want to keep your current filestructure, you could also add every single subfolder as own path to the library - but i would not recommend that.
    dr0p5
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    2025-12-18, 01:26 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-12-18, 01:48 PM by dr0p5. Edited 1 time in total.)
    (2025-12-18, 01:13 PM)Emailluka Wrote: The Problem will probably be the Subfolders A/B/C/..
    Your files should be organized like described in the documentation:
    https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...ganization

    If you want to keep your current filestructure, you could also add every single subfolder as own path to the library - but i would not recommend that.
    Ok thanks, i used this structure because it with every othersystem with a folder View it was better for the Overview and scrolling. (With 200+ TV Shows it was a hassle to scroll from A to V.)
    And it worked without a problem for my movie directory.

    With each Letter as own path what would be the downside?
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    2025-12-18, 04:55 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-12-18, 04:55 PM by Emailluka.)
    As i am just a simple user, i cannot tell if there even are downsides - but maybe alot of paths per library (in your example that would probably be 20+) lead to longer scantimes or maybe there even is a limit per library.. i have not tried it.
    It was just a suggestion so you would not have to rearange your folderstructure.
    But i guess just trying is the easiest way.
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