plex_dupefinder icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
plex_dupefinder copied to clipboard

Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon l3uddz

Plex Versions not shown as duplicate

Open wivaku opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments

I create "Plex Versions", with the location: subfolder of original file. Plex "get Info" shows both versions, ./plexdupes.py does not. I don't have anything in the SKIP_LIST. Using Plex v1.16.5.1554

Example of movie and Plex Version:

.../movies/my Movie (2019)/my.Movie.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-NTG English.mkv
.../movies/my Movie (2019)/Plex Versions/Optimized for Mobile/my Movie (2019).mp4

wivaku avatar Sep 04 '19 13:09 wivaku

Thanks for this awesome piece of software. I second this issue, although it might just be that I need to format what I'm doing propperly. I attempted to add "Plex Versions" to the SKIP_LIST but it seems to be ignored. I'm not entirely clear on what the formatting should be for the skip list. Is it a literal quoted string, does the space in "Plex Versions" need to be escaped..

rhyguy avatar Sep 04 '19 15:09 rhyguy

@rhyguy adding it to SKIP_LIST is supposed to ignore the Plex Versions. The opposite of what I'm looking for.

wivaku avatar Sep 04 '19 15:09 wivaku

Looking at the code. It seems the logic for the skip isn't fired off until after you make the selection to delete. For instance, I added "/Plex Versions/" to my SKIP_LIST and then run plexdupes. It searches and then finds a movie with an optimized version and flags it as a dupe. If you go ahead and tell it to "b", keep the best, it then moved to the routine that checks to see if the path contains the string in the SKIP_LIST. In this case it matches so it skips the file and spits out the following message.

Choose item to keep (0 = skip | b = best): b Keeping 34 Removing 35 Skipping removal of this item as there is a match in SKIP_LIST

Seems like the issue here is just that a more desirable flow would be to check for a match in the SKIP_LIST first and don't even display anything, just move on to the next one.

TL;DR: False positive is throwing a warning and it will skip anyway.. Just hit 'b' once and see..

rhyguy avatar Sep 04 '19 15:09 rhyguy

I have the feeling we're talking about two different things. In my case Plex has 2 versions of "my Movie", but ./plexdupes.py does not detect them / show them as duplicates. I tried it both with empty SKIP_LIST and "SKIP_LIST": ["/Plex Versions/"],

wivaku avatar Sep 04 '19 16:09 wivaku

@wivaku You're right. I reread your initial post and now it makes more sense. You're looking to include the comparison, not exclude it like I am.

Sorry to unintentionally hijack your ticket... :-)

rhyguy avatar Sep 04 '19 16:09 rhyguy