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. …

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’.

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 ra…

[image] werz_saqib_gmail_com: 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 …

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