Changing status to rewatch a series without completely deleting history for that user - How?

[FordGuy61]

FYI, another thread on the topic:

Changing a previously played episode/show/movie to unplayed deletes the data from dashboard watch history

I’ll try and keep this simple. Take this scenario: You watched a TV Show at some point in the past, I’ll use The Book of Boba Fett as an example. You have a full play history for that show which displays both dashboard in the web app and the plex dash app. Then you decide to watch the show again and set the show to unplayed. What happens is all your historical play history for that show is deleted. Looking in the DB I can also confirm this. If you run this query while you have the data you…