(Solved) Weird issue: No matter how many movies I add in this library, these 4 are always in the front of 'Recently added'

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.21.1.3830
Player Version#: Any

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XML for two of the shows:
139.txt (95.0 KB) 3959.txt (90.2 KB)

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Not so weird.
addedAt="4039380000"
which translates to “Wed, 01 Jan 2098 02:00:00 GMT”

So, either

  • your Plex server is running on a machine which hasn’t precise time and date information at all times. Make sure the machine has an active ntp client and is set to synchronize its real time clock regularly, particularly after a fresh bootup.
  • these particular media items are stored with a “modified” or “created” at date/timestamp which lies ~77 years in the future. The only circumstance where such a date could get into a Plex database would be during the first scan of a just-created library though.

Cure:

  1. verify the date/time stamp of all media files involved. Correct/modify if necessary.
  2. perform the Plex Dance with the affected items
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The server uses time.windows.com and is within seconds or is right on with my machine I’m typing on.

However, I did have to move the install of Plex from C: over to the main storage array G: at one point following the guide. I wonder if this corruption happened when it rebuilt the libraries at that time.

To fix it, can I just edit the xml or something?

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Define “install”. Only the media files themselves or the Plex data folder?
But unlikely, nonetheless.

The date is in the primary SQLite database file. Either you edit this directly or you perform the above mentioned Plex Dance.

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Plex data folder. It was growing too large and had to be moved - likely because I didn’t set the folder correctly originally planning for when the server had lots of media on it.

Currently working on performing the dance.

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If the array is connected directly to a Windows Plex server (via drive letter), make sure the array is formatted with the NTFS file system.
ReFS won’t do for the Plex data folder.

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It’s a 40TB NTFS array.

Upon closer inspection, the files also has a modified date of 2097, soooooo that’s weird.
The server has been going along fine for a few years now without time issues (NTP to time.windows.com - not joined to my local domain). Not really sure where it got 2097 from.

Anyway, used nirsoft bulk file changer to set a past date on modified then performed plex shuffle - movies are adding in sequence again.

Thanks for spotting the time offset.

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