Placement of New Movies on Home Page

Two possible cases:

  • when these files were added, the Plex server machine had an incorrectly set date/time (in the future)
  • these items were added during the course of library creation. They have a file date/time stamp which lies in the future.

Both should be fixable by performing the Plex dance with the affected items.

To prevent this from happening in the future,

  • do a sanity check on the file date/time stamp of all files you add and change it if necessary
  • activate the automatic time synchronization of both the server machine and the file server/NAS
  • give your Plex server machine enough time after boot up, to actually perform the time synchronization. i.e. don’t add new files when it’s not booted up completely yet.