Am I misunderstanding, or is this broken?
Upon discovering Plex's .NFO scanner (which I've been waiting several years for and am very excited over), I intend to re-do my entire library with local assets for greater resilience and portability. I don't want to screw up my library in the meantime, however (it's going to take alot of time to properly redo my whole library with Tiny Media Manager). So I created this:
Going by the description, it should recognize the NFO files if there, and if not, use the Plex Series scanner to scrape metdata from online. Best of both worlds. But I'm testing it with a proof-of-concept librayer. One TV Show that's properly scraped with NFO files (which works perfectly) and one that is named properly, with the TVDB code in the folder, and works perfectly in my current setup (I just copied the folder from my functional setup to the POC library). But the result I get for that is:
What am I missing? Shouldn't it be looking for NFO files in this folder, realizing it's not getting the info it needs and the scraping from TheTVDB?
Edit #1: u/ExtensionMarch6812 found a Plex forum thread that explains it. The fall-back source will pull any metadata it doesn't find, but it won't actually match the show to a source. So if I had an nfo file for the show, but not any episode data, it'd pull in the episode data. But since it has no way of identifying the show through the primary scanner, it just aborts.
Disappointing, but makes sense. Guess I just need to be patient and change the scanner when I'm done with the nfo transition.
Edit #2: what an odd thing to down-vote. The verbage does not make this clear, and inevitably somene's going to have the same confusion as me. Guaranteed having this thread come up in a Google search is going to help someone one day.
