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[Issue]: Metadata is being updated on TV shows causing Jellyfin to think episodes are newly added #5948
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Originally created by @mikul9 on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024).
Please describe your bug
TV shows are showing as recently added when they have not been. The files for these shows show a modified data of four years ago except for the associated NFO files which were changed today and contain a modified date of the same.
With no modifications to the video files as confirmed by the download client logs, these shows shouldn't indicate recent adds.
Reproduction Steps
Allow Jellyfin to refresh metadata
Jellyfin Version
10.9.0
if other:
10.9.4
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@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
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@VIVxID commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
I had some issues with this as well when replacing some files with new versions, but with the same name. In theory, I thought they'd have the same date, but when I scanned them into TinyMediaManager, the "dateadded" field in the NFO files for the episodes was updated with a new date.
Manually changing this to the old date, writing it to the NFO and then rescanning the show in Jellyfin (replacing all metadata) fixed the issue for me.
@Shadowghost commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
If there is a NFO with
dateaddedit overrides the file creation date as source of truth for date added. If you don't have that in your NFO, it's we need to find out why it breaks, if you have this is intended behavior.@mikul9 commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
This leads to two questions:
@Shadowghost commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
@mikul9 commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
On #2, it's difficult to imagine a file 4-years old didn't have an NFO file although that's somewhat difficult to prove. No "replace all metadata" was run.
Looking through the logs, every series that had this happen to them has the following lines in the log about having a trailer URL in depreciated format. No untouched series has a similar entry. That seems like a strange reason to update the dateadded field though.
@theguymadmax commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
@mikul9 are you still on 10.9.4? There have been a few bug fixes regarding nfo files since then.
Two options you can try on 10.9.6, if upgrading and refreshing doesn't help.
or
@mikul9 commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
Yes, I was on 10.9.4 when this happened. I just upgraded to 10.9.6, so I'll keep watching this.
As for the settings in Dashboard->Libraries->NFO... where is that? I must be looking in the wrong place.

@theguymadmax commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
Correct path is Dashboard->Libraries-> Display->
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@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Oct 27, 2024):
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