I’ve seen multiple posts requesting the ability to remove a newly added file from the “Recently Added” list on the dashboard, but no solutions other than non-specific references to editing some database file somewhere. I never really had an issue with this until, I think, recently when the metadata agents changed. Feel free to skip to the last paragraph for the ultimate point of this.
Until recently, when I needed to replace a corrupted file (or when adding a subtitle or etc) I could simply add the new file while keeping the old file, Plex would then match it and show that I had two copies of the same movie, but it would NOT show the updated file in “Recently Added”. Then I could delete the old file and everything was good.
Alternatively, if I wanted to add an actually new movie but didn’t want it in “Recently Added”, I could put the file in the directory, have Plex add it to Recently Added, but then rematch it (temporarily incorrectly) to some other movie already in my library, so that it would then show two copies of that movie, then split them apart and rematch the newer movie to the correct version.
Long story short, I can’t seem to do any of that any more, so if there is some database file that I need to edit manually could someone point me in that direction? Or if there is something more obvious I am missing?
Any chance that this is a library, which has been converted to the new metadata agent – but the last step of the conversion process has been omitted (or aborted), which is to “Refresh Metadata” of the whole library?
If that is the case then this behaviour is no wonder.
The newly added files are matched using the new agent, while the older files are still assigned to their old guid’s. Thus making it impossible for Plex to recognize that these are the same episodes/movies.
Not sure. I just told it to refresh the metadata for that library. It says it may take a long time so will see if that fixes it and merges the two items as one.
Unfortunately it did not do what I hoped. Yes, that did cause it to essentially merge them together, but it did not remove the newer copy from the recently added. I then removed the newer copy and rescanned the library and it showed just the older version but it is still listed in the recently added section. I just don’t want it to show a movie as recently added when all I really did was change an audio track. So maybe I need to edit a db somewhere? I know how to easily do it in jellyfin but not in Plex.
My only other idea, which is kind of annoying, would be to look at the recently added list and physically move the other files (movies) that are on that list out the library then do a scan. Then re-add those files back one by one scanning to keep the correct order. That way Plex would see them as newer than this edited file.
