# Home Videos Metadata lost

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/home-videos-metadata-lost/402857>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [April 21, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/home-videos-metadata-lost/402857 "2019-04-21T21:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roshri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/roshri/32/90113_2.png) [@Roshri](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Roshri)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/home-videos-metadata-lost/402857/1 "2019-04-21T21:27:37Z")

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I messed up today when Editing a library which had “other videos” selected as library type.  
I use this library to save Live concerts since most of them don’t have metadata in any of the agents I’ve seen. So I fill the metadata manually for every item.  
Problem is, a lot of them come with a file named “menu” which takes space in the library.  
Tried to get rid of it using a plexignore _Menu_ but then it ignored a lot of items that didn’t have it on its filename.  
When I got rid of the plexignore to recover the lost files, I found out I had lost metadata for all these items.

Is there a way to recover it?

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/home-videos-metadata-lost/402857/2 "2019-04-21T21:31:26Z")

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You can try to restore a backup of the database file.  
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/home-videos-metadata-lost/402857/3 "2019-07-20T21:31:28Z")

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