Please add the ability to sort movies by Folder or File modified date. This will allow movies to be sorted by when they were added to the ‘Movies’ library or folder.
Love Plex, and have a lifetime Pass. I like to see my Movies by ‘Date Added’ to my Library, so as I add new movies I see them First.
The built in ‘Date Added’ sort only takes into account when the Movies was added to the current Plex database on the server.
For various reasons, I’ve had to rebuild my Plex Movies Folder, recently this was due the path on my qnap changing as the raid array gained a new device ID number. On rebuild the Plex adds the Movies in a seemingly random order when sorted by ‘Date Added’.
I would like to see a Sort by: Movies File (or Folder) Date i.e when the file or folder was created / modified on the local file system.
If you add all media storage paths to the library, right while you are creating the library, Plex will use the file’s date as its ‘Added at’.
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That is great advice Otto; would I have to create a new Library, if my previous ones became unavailable?
For example:
Movies -> path=device3\Movies
and now needs to be path=device4\Movies
I simply replaced the path (keeping the original Library), this has re-ordered the Movies to a seemingly random order.
So if I create a new “Movies New” with the new path, it will create a new Library with the File date as the added at date?
Yes, this should work.
For future data moves: There is another method, which involves directly editing the Plex database. Thereby changing all file paths to the new storage location: [HowTo] Plex database modification - Moving media the right/wrong way - #10 by jelwell
Of course, in an ideal world the above workarounds wouldn’t have been necessary. But I assume that your old movie library has been created with the old Plex Movie agent.
Then the library got converted to the new agent, but the necessary Metadata Refresh to finish this process was never performed.
So when you added the new path, all the files in there got matched with the new agent, while the old items were still matched to the old agent. When this happens, Plex cannot recognize them as the same movie and creates new items, which of course don’t share their ‘Added at’ dates with the old items.
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