After stumbling onto a problem where my Recently Added media library items got messed up due to leaving the “Empty trash automatically after every scan” setting enabled in the Library configuration section of Plex, I went down a rabit hole to find a fix.
I came upon a few posts, most notably:
- https://michielvanerp.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/plex-fix-recently-added/
- https://forums.plex.tv/t/can-no-longer-update-library-database-with-sqlite3/701405
The workaround seemed reasonable, however, I could see how this can be frustrating for most people to try and implement. And as an avid user of Plex, and someone that loves coding, I decided to knock out a quick tool to do this for you. For more info, please see my github repository: https://github.com/Yawnz/plex-media-date-updater
