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Ah gotcha, that could be the issue. I feel like Jellyfin should be able to handle that, but the way I have it setup is just placing all my movies in a single movie folder, then Jellyfin takes care of the rest. I then take it a step further and put movies into subfolders alphabetically, so mine would look like
…/jellyfin/movies/S/Star Trek II - The Wratch of Kahn (1982).mkv
This allegedly makes searching faster, but I think you’d need like a couple thousand movies for it to make any difference.
There are times where I don’t really like this, for example Rambo 1 is called First Blood so it’s in the F directory and the rest of the Rambo movies are in the R directory, but Jellyfin will organize it all on the interface so it’s not a huge deal. Edit: you can also make a “Sort Title” so it will live next to the other Rambo’s instead of off by itself with the other F movies.
Also, I think some of my issues are coming from using the TMDB Box Set plugin which automates my collections. I think if you create the collections manually things might go a bit smoother.