It seems that after every PMS update (recently to 9.15.5) the Recently Added section of my movie library shows old movies added and not any of the new ones I just added. When I add movies after an update they show correctly (but only the ones since the last PMS update). For example, after updating to 9.15.5 the recently added list shows movies with file dates in 2013, and the ones added yesterday are not shown. Movies added after the update are shown correctly, until the next update then the same old movies appear as recently added. Is there a way to rescan movies so that they appear correctly in the date added section? For what its worth, running Windows 10 and PMS 9.15.5.
Im running into the same issue. I have a static list of “recently added” movies even though other movies are added to the library, they never show in the ‘recently added’ the same ones stay in the list.
I never got an answer to this issue, but found a “work around”. I don’t consider this issue solved as a work around is just that, not a solution. For those that want to sort their library by file date, the following worked for me on version 0.9.15.6. Here’s the link to the solution.
This is the process described in the link.
I was able to figure it out for any of those who are interested in updating your plex database for Date Added based on the file’s creation date, not when it was loaded into your plex DB using a Windows (7-10) based system;
1.Download SQLITE3.exe (http://www.sqlite.org/download.html)
2.Place the .exe in your Plex Server database location; Typically: “C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-in Support\Databases”
3.Run SQLITE3 as Admin
4.type: “.open com.plexapp.plugins.library.db”
5.type: “update metadata_items set added_at=(select media_items.updated_at from media_items where media_items.metadata_item_id=metadata_items.id);”
6.type: “.quit”
7.Close out of Plex Media Server (tray icon and all)
8.Relaunch Plex Media Server
9.Enjoy re-sorted titles
Just a note. For windows users (I have Windows 10) the file you want to download that contains SQLITE3.exe is sqlite-tools-win32-x86-3110000.zip. Move just the SQLITE3.exe file from the zip folder as noted above.
I believe the real solution to this issue would be to have an option in Plex itself to sort the library by file date.
Hope this helps others.
Sorry to hijack this post, but I too am having the same problem, ‘recently added’ shows movies that have been in my library for months, even years, as “added 4 days ago” - last time I updated the server software, and the only actual recent movie shown in the list is one added AFTER the update was applied.
Have updated to 9.16.1 and it’s still happening, the only thing I can suggest is it is a region thing, given I’m in the UK, and our date format is DD/MM/YYYY - and the meta data shows “Originally available: 2012-08-17”.
Guessing I have to bump…
