I usually sort my Library by default to “Date Added” and keep the last added media to the top (just a personal preference). However due to a recent crash I had to rescan-reimport my Library so Added Date is pretty much the same as Title (as in alphabetical) right now.
Would it be possible to have a new sorting method togehter with the existing Date Added and Date Viewed called e.g. Date Filesystem?
Thanks
Hi,
i think there is no common solution for your problem.
Maybe you have a plex backup which you can import. This would restore also the DateAdded field in your PlexDatabase.
I have the same personal preference and resolved this issue with a python script on my linux server.
Therefore, the script has to modify the Plex-database. But this is critical because the script can also corrupt the database.
So I Agree for this feature request!! Thumbs UP!
Best wishes
When you add media folder during the course of creating the Plex library, Plex will use the file date and put it into the ‘Date Added’ column of the database.
This is intended for reconstructing lost libraries.
But you must add all media locations at once, right at the beginning.
If you edit an already existing library and add a folder to it, it doesn’t work.
I’m having the same issue. The “date added” does not correspond to the actual file date in the folder. And, there appears to be no way to sort video’s by the actual file date, which is desired. I have a library of 16,000 video’s that, for some reason, now seem to have the same “date added” date, and adding another drive made things worse. How can I just wipe out the library and rebuild it using the actual file date that appears on the actual file? I tried removing the folders and re-adding them, but the added folders have the same screwed up sorting. I’ve used this product for years without issue but without proper sorting, we can’t simply pull up the video’s that have recently been added to conveniently watch them. At the top of the list of “recently added” there are video’s that are 3 years old and we can’t find the ones that should have been recently added. Plex used to show the most recently added video, usually within 30 min of it being added. Now it takes a day or so to appear on the list, and many old video’s apppear on the list first. How can I straighten this out?
I got to the conclusion that the filesystem date added can be achieved enabling the “dangerous”
Empty trash automatically after every scan
Dangerous because if for whatever reason the part of filesystem where the library lives is unavailable your whole Plex DB is to be wiped.
However: isn’t this very easy to fix at code level? How about a very simple control on the availability/presence of the each reference to the "Add folders to your library " page? Failingt the control would prevent the auto trash routine to run?
My 2 cents
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