Plex keeps finding existing TV Shows, updating their added date to 78 years into the future - meaning they always appear in the “Recently Added” section.
Step 3 works temporarily - however Plex will re-update the added dates on a particular set of TV Shows and they go back to being 78 years in the future.
The time/date on the server is fine. This is evident by the fact new content is added correctly. It seems to be updating the added date only on existing content
For example - this episode of the Looming Tower keeps getting changed to 78 years in the future- here is the XML data
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="6" librarySectionTitle="TV Shows" librarySectionUUID="6e50e244-1e9c-4a3b-ad37-9aeade8c5a4e" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1566369959">
<script/>
<Video ratingKey="78765" key="/library/metadata/78765" skipParent="1" parentRatingKey="78756" grandparentRatingKey="78755" guid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://331821/1/9?lang=en" parentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://331821/1?lang=en" grandparentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://331821?lang=en" librarySectionTitle="TV Shows" librarySectionID="6"librarySectionKey="/library/sections/6" type="episode" title="Tuesday" grandparentKey="/library/metadata/78755" parentKey="/library/metadata/78756" grandparentTitle="The Looming Tower" parentTitle="Season 1" contentRating="TV-MA" summary="The CIA becomes aware that Hazmi and Mihdhar are gone and must relay that to the FBI. O’Neill accepts a job as head of security at the World Trade Center. Soufan is sent back to Yemen. Hazmi, Mihdhar and Atta head to Vegas for a final indulgence." index="9" parentIndex="1" rating="7.0" year="2018" thumb="/library/metadata/78765/thumb/1567792046" art="/library/metadata/78755/art/1566039215" parentThumb="/library/metadata/78756/thumb/1566039215"grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/78755/thumb/1566039215" grandparentArt="/library/metadata/78755/art/1566039215" duration="2898774" originallyAvailableAt="2018-04-11" addedAt="4039315200" updatedAt="1567792046" chapterSource="media">
<Media id="83046" duration="2898774" bitrate="12941" width="1920" height="1080" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="6" audioCodec="dca" videoCodec="h264" videoResolution="1080" container="mkv" videoFrameRate="24p" audioProfile="dts" videoProfile="high">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="83046" key="/library/parts/83046/4039315200/file.mkv" duration="2898774" file="/mnt/unionfs/TV/The Looming Tower/Season 1/The Looming Tower - S01E09 - Tuesday.mkv" size="4689002037" audioProfile="dts" container="mkv" videoProfile="high">
<Stream id="203259" streamType="1" default="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="11405" bitDepth="8" chromaLocation="left" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" frameRate="23.976" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="1080" level="41" profile="high" refFrames="4" scanType="progressive" width="1920" displayTitle="1080p (H.264)"/>
<Stream id="203260" streamType="2" selected="1" default="1" codec="dca" index="1" channels="6" bitrate="1536" language="English" languageCode="eng" audioChannelLayout="5.1(side)" bitDepth="24" profile="dts" samplingRate="48000" displayTitle="English (DTS 5.1)"/>
<Stream id="83276" key="/library/streams/83276" streamType="3" codec="srt" language="English" languageCode="eng" displayTitle="English (SRT External)"/>
</Part>
</Media>
<Director id="134803" filter="director=134803" tag="Craig Zisk"/>
<Writer id="146896" filter="writer=146896" tag="Adam Rapp"/>
<Extras size="0"> </Extras>
</Video>
</MediaContainer>
Be sure the Settings>Library>Empty trash automatically after every scan is disabled(unchecked)
I don’t know much about docker but in any event, Plex sees the year as 2097 and plex does not create time. It’s retrieving the time from your system or the files timestamp.
Do me a favor. Please add another new movie/tv and note the time(day, month, year, hour, minute) when you see plex detecting the new content.
Then post the XML and your noted time you added said new movie/tv.
ah, and the one thing I had been meaning to check seems to be the issue.
my media files have a busted timestamp on them (i.e. if I look at the file on disk, it has a date of Jan 1, 2098). Have you checked the timestamp on your media files?
I ran a touch * in the dir with the files to fix the date, and “Refresh Metadata” didn’t pick up the new date, but later I’ll try something more drastic to see if I can dislodge what’s in the DB.
My media is on an external drive and was recently moved from one machine to another, not sure if you happened to be in a similar sitch. Anyways, work a look?
