Manga chapters showing up as individual mangas

[wcamicase]

What happened?

After the last update and subsequent library refresh, many of my manga now show as a chapter is a manga by itself.

What did you expect?

For the chapters to be inside the corresponding manga

Kavita Version Number - If you don not see your version number listed, please update Kavita and see if your issue still persists.

0.8.4 - Stable

What operating system is Kavita being hosted from?

Docker (Other)

If the issue is being seen on Desktop, what OS are you running where you see the issue?

Windows

If the issue is being seen in the UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Firefox, Chrome

If the issue is being seen on Mobile, what OS are you running where you see the issue?

Android

If the issue is being seen on the Mobile UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Firefox, Chrome

Relevant log output

No response

Additional Notes

Running on a Synology NAS

[majora2007]

I've never seen that before, but it's likely something with parsing. Give me your folder layout for Fairy Tail and the filenames.

[wcamicase]

It is the same as all the other mangas I have, although only a few are afflicted.

It goes:

• Manga
• Fairy Tail - 100 Years Quest
• Chapter X
• 01.jpg
• (...)

Here you have examples:

[wcamicase]

Could it be related to "#" and "-" on the name of files and/or directories?

I'm trying to find a common factor between them and these are the first things to call my attention.

The Persona 3 manga that I have has the chapter folders like this:

(it also suffers from the problem)

[majora2007]

Ahh loose leaf images, not very flexible. I would recommend using chapter 1 for the folder name. Change a few and test.

[wcamicase]

I'll try that once I get back and have some time. However, the Fairy Tail issue still remains and I believe that the ones that have a "-" also suffer from it.

It was working before though. It might be related to the changes to the scanner that were noted in the update.

[majora2007]

I didn't change any parsing rules in the new version, but the way the scanner combines and goes into folders did change quite drastically, so perhaps a side effect.

I would HIGHLY recommend using archives instead. It's much more flexible, widely accepted, and allows for metadata if needed. In our discord server, there are some script to create them for you.

[nicolas35380]

Hi, same problem here : if there is a number in folder name, it's not ok :

Exemple : if i replace The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2 by The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level Two : parsing and group by title is ok :

Result :

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Kavita Version Number

0.8.4.2 - Stable

What operating system is Kavita being hosted from?

Docker

If the issue is being seen on Desktop, what OS are you running where you see the issue?

Windows

If the issue is being seen in the UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Firefox,

If the issue is being seen on Mobile, what OS are you running where you see the issue?

not tested

If the issue is being seen on the Mobile UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

not tested

Relevant log output

No response

Additional Notes

Running on Docker -> Debian 12 -> Proxmox

[majora2007]

What are the filenames? Kavita only looks at the folder name in cases where there isn't enough information to get from the filename.

You can also just use metadata one-off on cases where numbers are in the folder/filename like this. Just set the Series across it.

[nicolas35380]

What are the filenames? Kavita only looks at the folder name in cases where there isn't enough information to get from the filename.

You can also just use metadata one-off on cases where numbers are in the folder/filename like this. Just set the Series across it.

(replaced "2" by "Two" in foldername to test)

and

Other one (wuthout number and parsing ok) has same filename :

[majora2007]

I'm impressed Kavita can actually group into chapters with the folder names like that. Kavita has parsing support for what's common, but leading using foreign words does not work unless support is added.

Change to using the word chapter @nicolas35380 and report back.

[nicolas35380]

Always been ok with french name (autonaming from app) ;-)

In this case : i renamed _Chapitre 1 and _Chapitre 2 with chapter 1 and chapter 2 and no difference, same problem :

and after a scan :

After that, i just rename The Dark Magician Transmigrates After 66666 Years to The Dark Magician Transmigrates After many many Years ;-) (really long title...)

to

and then after a new scan 👍