I’m in the process of setting up a NAS for my older movies keeping my SAN available for newer content. When I move the older media to the SAN it gets set as recently added. I would like to remove whatever flag is set so that I don’t have 4 yr old movies showing as recently added. Is there a config file somewhere that can be accessed? Thanks for any help.
Don’t move.
copy first
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154537-Move-Media-Content-to-a-New-Location
It uses the files create date.
Thanks, that works if I am moving an entire folder. In my case I am moving individual movies to a new location.
I changed both the creation date as well as the modified date and they are still showing up as recently added.
@dschirm said:
I changed both the creation date as well as the modified date and they are still showing up as recently added.
This will only have an effect if you create a totally new library and add the storage location in the course of this library creation.
I’m not sure I’m following exactly what you are suggesting. Are you saying to create a new library, then add that library as a storage location in plex then put the movie files in ?
It uses the files create date.
I am saying that this won’t work for your situation.
Did you read this link?
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154537-Move-Media-Content-to-a-New-Location
Yes I did. OK Thanks, Thought you were saying something different. I was hoping there were be a data base that was accessible that could be modified to clear out the files. I suppose I could make a new library that just has the old movies. I was trying to avoid all of the hoping around between various libraries.
@dschirm said:
Yes I did. OK Thanks, Thought you were saying something different. I was hoping there were be a data base that was accessible that could be modified to clear out the files. I suppose I could make a new library that just has the old movies. I was trying to avoid all of the hoping around between various libraries.
If you know exactly how Plex’s database is structured (I don’t) you could do this with a SQL query.
Otherwise, if you want to keep all your movies within the same library, my linked method is the only one.
I myself know the database enough to be able to do this but it’s far better to do it the way OttoKerner mentioned.
It just works!
Thanks, that doesn’t achieve what I had wanted. What I had originally wanted was to add my NAS to the storage mix. I was going to make a movie folder on the NAS and add that to the movie library which also had a folder from my SAN. As some of my movies aged and less likely to be watched I would move them from the SAN to the NAS. (The SAN is substantially faster).
I am just going to make an archive library and save the frustration. Its just that now there are 2 libraries to look thru as opposed to 1.
I don’t think that will help. The recently added is not a flag. Plex stores the date you add the movie to the database, so if you create an new archived library and move your files there, they may still show up as new. A trick you can use is to change the date on your computer before you move the files. PMS will use the system date so if you set the date to say 2015, they will use that date so they shouldn’t show up as new. Just remember to change the date back.
The archive library worked fine. Since they are old movies recently added doesn’t matter and they maintained the watched/unwatched data. Its not the solution I wanted but it was the easiest.
