Hi,
I have a few TV shows that for whatever reason it says the date they were added to the library is many many many years into the future. It’s ruining the recently added list as they are always on top. Is there a way to correct this?
Thanks!
-matt
@userblah said:
Hi,I have a few TV shows that for whatever reason it says the date they were added to the library is many many many years into the future. It’s ruining the recently added list as they are always on top. Is there a way to correct this?
Thanks!
-matt
Does it still happen ? When TV Shows are added ?
Is it possible the system date was wrong when they were added ?
If it still happens, please get server logs when items are added - of course with debug logging enabled beforehand
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201643703-reporting-issues-with-plex-media-server/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/
Luckily, this does not still happen. I was setting up a new Mac Mini a little under two months ago and plugged in my hard drives to build a new library. All of my other shows synced fine but a few are in the future.
I’m assuming based on that, the date was right, but I know it’s never good to assume.
TLDR: Files were added with a date of 2098. This caused the Plex DB to always have these media files as “Recently Added”. Had to go through and “touch” each of them.
I recently had the same problem. My “Recently Added” would show the same movies/TV. I thought this was a DB problem and went through a ton of steps to fix what was not actually broken.
On a whim, I went a looked at each of the files and noticed they had dates years in the future (I.e 7/21/2098). I had not realized that Plex adds to its database based on the file date rather than the date its added to the database.
So to fix this (Linux system), I SSH’d to the files and did a "touch ". That changed the date to today. I then did a find for all files with a future date, and found quite a few of them. I need to do more digging as to what is causing that.
One other note: once I changed the date, Plex did not update its DB entry. It kept the old 2098 date. I had to remove them from the folder, rescan the folder to have them removed and then re-add them to have them pick up the new date.
Feature request. Can Plex put in a check for any files being added that may have a date well into the future, and then just add today’s date in its place?
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