# Recovering lost media **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** other-dev\ **Created:** [June 5, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/recovering-lost-media/68110 "2014-06-05T11:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kingofzeal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kingofzeal/32/119603_2.png) [@kingofzeal](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kingofzeal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/recovering-lost-media/68110/1 "2014-06-05T11:08:30Z")
A short while ago, something odd happened on my media server, and I lost a portion of my movie collection (specifically all movies beginning with the letters N-S). Ultimately, I'm attempting to recover a list of all these movies so I can get them again. If I remember my numbers correctly, it's about 500 movies.   While working on this project, I've noticed that one of the movies that I lost (all the movies are additionally not showing up on the Plex server) still retained the 'watched' status after I obtained it again, so I figure Plex must have a list of these movies somewhere.    Where could I potentially find this information? If it's nested in files I can likely write a script that would parse everything (forming a master list) and go from there, but the folder structure in Appdata/Media/localhost seems to be rather complex for me to be able to find in any reasonable time. ---
**Author:** ![kingofzeal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kingofzeal/32/119603_2.png) [@kingofzeal](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kingofzeal)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/recovering-lost-media/68110/3 "2014-06-11T12:21:04Z")
I tried to comb through the information there, but I wasn't able to find any information tied to media that was no longer in the library. Is there any other place I may be able to get a comprehensive listing of no-longer-existing media, or am I out of luck? ---
**Author:** ![mjf14](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mjf14/32/200_2.png) [@mjf14](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mjf14)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/recovering-lost-media/68110/5 "2015-02-06T15:03:32Z")
Reviving an old thread.  I too am trying to audit a disaster.  I have a datestamped copy of the db from several days ago that is loaded in sqlitebrowser.  Can someone please tell me how to query or look for my lost gems?  I am not even exactly sure when the deletes happened.  I just realized that my Movie count seems to be off by about 100 movies or so!?!?!? Thanks.  :( ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 2:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/recovering-lost-media/68110/6 "2019-12-21T02:14:39Z")
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