See post: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/80827-date-added-by-file-mtime-or-ctime-in-plex/ By default, Plex will sort the "recently added" items by the date/time they were scanned in the library. The issue with this is that if user wants to add a lot of existing media file in the coll…

There are some other circumstances where this option would be helpful. For instance, one time some of my media “went missing” sometimes the media gets corrupted other times I need to deal with filenames or rearrange them in the file system for easier management. In all of these cases, Plex will …

Feature request: add the option to sort "recently added" by file date/time

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Feature request: add the option to sort "recently added" by file date/time

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