Why can’t I remove a movie or TV show from the recently added list?
I’m trying to convert my movies to a different format. So I copy the new format in with the old format so it won’t go on the recently added list but some bypass that and show up there anyway. Plex dance doesn’t correct it either.
It would be nice to have in the drop down to remove it from the recently added list in case I’m just changing my library around. My users are confused as to why old movies are showing up again as new.
Got the same issue. Perhaps a check box in the title’s data should be added.
While you wait for plex to act on this request -
You can do this now with a little bit of SQL
UPDATE metadata_items SET added_at = originally_available_at WHERE added_at <> originally_available_at AND originally_available_at IS NOT NULL AND library_section_id=<ID of the library>
This will set the added date to the date the media was originally released (available)
It’s good for times when you add a bunch of older content and don’t want it at the front of your recently added
I would like this feature as well. Be able to right click and it say “Remove from list”
After all these years and so many posts about “recentl;y added” showing movies that have been updated instead of added. When are you adding a simple check to the DB to NOT show movies or not change the date if the entry already exist? This is so annoying, I don’t want to see movies I"ve added years ago and now finally been updated due to a re-digitization. I love Plex and will probably use it for ever, am even a lifetime subscriber, but this is a feature that I hate the most and honestly makes me look around to find another “server”
Can you elaborate?
isn’t recently added just a basic filter? That being the case, excluding seems like a fair rework.
I’m talking about on the home page. Sure, if you click on recently added link you can filter but it still shows default on the home screen which is highly annoying.
If I’m missing something, please correct and educate me?
so you don’t want recently added on your homescreen at all? I thought you wanted to remove specific items from the filter.
I do want recently added on the home screen, I don’t want “refreshed” movies showing as they were not added recently?
I think the problem you have is that “technically” it is a new entry and the filter is just a simple one so it’s always going to see it as a new entry in the DB.
Be interested to see what staff say but i don’t see this happening unless it’s easy to exclude it from the filter somehow. I feel like if people excluded too much it would just add more work for PleX to process. However someone better at databases can probably tell that.
This convo actually forced me to a discovery; though, not exactly how it should work but for now acceptable.
Go to Settings>Manage>Libraries & hover over the library you want to edit i.e. Movies and click on “Manage Recommendations”. From here you can deselect “Recently Added Movies” from the “Home” column and select “Recently Released Movies”.
For now this will work as I typically add recent movies (since adding my entire library years ago) unless I think of an old of one that I would like to add then that one will be lost in the list (unless recently added is re-activated). Makes sense? Thank you for the convo but I still hope that the dev team can finally put an end to this easy and simple change/solution. After all, as I said before, it is not “recently added”.
i personally just change the order stuff appears on Home and put recently added lower because i am often padding out my movies with stuff that i might want to watch but it isn’t necessarily new or replacing files with better versions.
The answer is easy… make it an editable tag, just like the description, release date, collection, etc.
It’s only “easy” if it’s a tag to begin with, as far as i can tell it’s the items add date to the database.
You’d probably need to convert that date to a tag/editable field just to do this, then apply that filter and make it something that gets added to home. Not trivial imho.
If refreshed items show up as Recently Added, there are a few steps you can take. Add the new files and scan the Library in Plex before deleting the old files. Consider disabling Automatically Empty Trash.... Plex won’t consider an item New if the new media file matches an existing movie/show entry.
@n2irock use the Plex SQLite included with Plex to avoid those tokenizer errors. It includes Plex-specific additions. And consider that @hthighway’s example SQL statement is a big shotgun. You may wish to constrain it further - AND added_at > datetime('now', '-1 days') or similar.
@power - It’s on the same database row as many of the other editable items on the General tab. It’s equivalent to Title, or the (editable) available_at column. If Plex wanted this to be editable in the GUI, it could be.
How does Plex SQLite work with docker? I’ve my instance running on docker…
~ Use the same instructions as for Linux 
some good info there @Volts
This feature is Important to fix
There’s a horror movie, I try to figure out how to remove from recently updated list. All my friends have kids. I would prefer if there was a way to remove it for everyone, from the server. Just adding a function “Remove from Recently Added” I could manually remove all the tittles that I deem extremely disturbing. After being removed from the “Recently Added”, that movie could still be access from the main movie library by anyone.
Right now all I can do is delete, or rematch and give it a different name. None of those options are good, I have the whole series, so this one goes with the set. Tittles need to match, and it belong to the library with the rest of the series.
Parental Control just complicate thing as the content won’t be accessible in the main movie library either. Removing the Recently Added, I don’t know why anyone would suggest that. From a user point of view, its PLEX best feature, all the new release just pops up there. It just needs the ability to edit its content to be PERFECT.
The fact I point-out make way more sense, this feature a very important. The “Recently Added” are what people see first. As of now there’s do way the prevent children from accessing this quick access content that, in certain case, could traumatized them. TEXAS C.M.
