I recently added “Attenborough and the Giant Elephant (2017)” to my movie library. I knew it was not listed at either IMDB or The Movie Database, but before I added it I had created an nfo file so I could match it with the XMBCnfoImporter agent when the auto-match failed.
The movie matched to “Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (2016)”, which surprised me, but the title is apparently close enough. No problem, I thought, just, split them and fix the match for the new addition.
That all worked perfectly. The metadata from the nfo file was loaded properly, and I thought all was good. Until I noticed that it did not show up in the “Recently Added” section. It was added to the library, but it kept the original “added at” date from the initial mismatch. I’ve attached the XML from both movies. below.
I “plex danced” the new addition a couple of times to try to get it to show up in the “Recently Added” hub, but to no avail. It always auto-matched first to the Giant Dinosaur and created the duplicate, and when matched properly failed to appear in the “Recent Additions” section because of the stubborn “added at” date.
I’ve kind of fixed the problem by “dancing” both movies so that I could get the new addition to show up. Of course, that also makes the older, previously matched movie also show up as a new addition. Annoying, but I’ll live with it.
Long story short, is there another method I should have used to add the movie, an alternate “plex Dance” I could have used, or any way I can post-pone the “auto-match” from matching to avoid this problem in the future.
I understand it’s a probably a rare occurrence, and in most cases you do not want the “Fix Match” to change the “added at” date.
