Empty folders in Active Playlist for New Episodes in Series

Active Playlist:

Keyword hierarchy:

Album/Series

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Match:
any
Play Count is 0

(*) Video files

New episodes show up as expected, sub-folders are created as needed, and when episodes are watched, they are removed from the relevant sub-folder.

However, when the last episode in a series is watched, the episode is removed, but the sub-folder for the series is not removed.

That doesn’t happen until I do something in the Mezzmo GUI that affects the Active Playlist. I haven’t yet encountered the situation enough times to say exactly what “something” has to be. If I use the GUI to set the Play Count of the last episode in a series non-zero, the episode disappears immediately; then after about thirty seconds, a message about updating active playlists appears and the sub-folder is removed. It’s only when the Play Count is set non-zero because the episode was actually watched that the empty sub-folder is left on the list.

As you might imagine, having empty sub-folders stick around on a to-be-watched list is annoying.

I have tried leaving the GUI running 24/7 (thinking maybe it was needed to update the playlist sub-folder structure), but that doesn’t help. I found that if I change the Play Count of the last episode of a series to non-zero in the GUI and then close the GUI immediately (before the updating active playlists message appears), when I restart the GUI the empty folder has not been removed, and is not removed until I do something (again, I don’t yet know precisely what “something” must be) that affects the active playlist.

If you run Maintain Library, your empty active playlists should be cleaned up. You can do any task on the Maintain Library dialog to kick off the active playlist maintenance - e.g. just select the "Remove media files from your Mezzmo library that cannot be found on your computer" checkbox and this should be quite fast to process.