How to disable empty Seasons? (missing episode fetcher?)

[Stellar3190]

Hey guys,

so I had this massive issue too. My library is not exactly small so it was a pain to fix it.
Here is what I did

1) Turned "Missing Episode Fetcher" off
2) Restart
3) Rescan

feel free to combine 1)-3) in any iteration. Nothing worked. They seem to be gone, but reappear after a Full Library Scan.
The only thing that fixed it, for me wat least, was 1 of 2 things:

A) Rebuild series. Straight up. Horrible and super annoying, but that fixed it permanently.
B) Like @paulc a couple of posts up suggested: write a script that creates a "Specials" folder in every series in your library. Then run a full metadata scan. It should populate with a "season.nfo". Run a full scan afterwards. Then run a script to delete every "Specials" folder. Run another full scan and everything should be fine again.

Now that only fixes issues with "Specials" folders. I had the same issue with some ghost seasons. There I had to follow the same logic and create a folder manually, let it scan into the metadata database and then delete it manually too. Massive pain.

Hope this helps!
Cheers