Is this just me or has this been asked before? As my library gets ever bigger so do my hard drive sizes but I am having to partition them into many drives to maintain the original config. Me and everyone I know just checks the recently added on the home screen rather than going into my New Movies library so if I move content into my Archive library it comes up as recently added which it isn’t is it!
Thanks for that link but I know HOW to move content, you cant move content already added to a different folder without it showing up as recently added in the home screen. I would like to move older movies from my New Movies library to my Archive library without plex changing the home screen and showing old movies as Recently Added, they have been added 5 years ago!
The Manage Recommendations is ok for some stuff but I have a lot of libraries that I would like to move to a single drive rather than all the made up partitions, these will show up as recently added because the drive letter will change, I dont want to exclude all my libraries from the recently added, i just dont want them to show up as recently added due to me wanting to tidy up all my drive lettering. I started off with lots of 1TB drives and now have 14TB drives with lots of partitions.
Thanks for this djfriday13, ive read it a few times but its not really sinking in what I have to do and whats going on, especially as im running windows, ive never even run ssh.
have you searched google for someone who has done this with windows set up? You dont need to use SSH since you are on windows. you can just start the server. go and copy that DB file and then use a text editor with a script or find and replace if you just want to make the date added really old for all archived movies. but im sure there is a tutorial somewhere for windows machines that is simpler than having to do it on linux based machine.
got bored and googled it for you. here is another post on what someone did. not very detailed but i’m sure if you can’t figure it out from this then there are tons of others who have done this and posted about it else where.
https://simon.holmbri.ng/2020/08/29/manipulating-date-added-in-the-plex-media-server-database/
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LOL, thanks man, seems like this is a solution and probably the only one but I doubt I will do this, not any time soon anyway, it seems you have to do it for each individual movie and that is going to take a very long time, maybe I have too many movies, I should probably have another cull and get rid of the crap to reduce my work first. Thanks again for taking the time.
No. You would run the script provided in those posts and it will change all the movies at once per the script. So one script I saw changed the date added to the movie release date and the other I saw changed the date added for all movies in that database to the same date. You would just need to make sure the script only ran for movies in the archived library (not the whole database). I’m sure someone has created a script for that somewhere on the interwebz.
Oh thats brilliant! It will be good to delete all my partitions!
i may end up doing this for one of my directories which is why i kept looking. i also found this link which seems like you can point it to a specific directory that will auto fix it in your plex db file and create a back up. It’s a little old so may not work anymore, but worth a shot. i would also run it on a copy of the db file saved somewhere else rather then the active one in plex just to make sure nothing wonky happened.
Nice, hopefully get some time at the weekend to start deleting partitions, unless the sun comes out, then i may have to dust off the bbq. 
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