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Originally created by @kura on GitHub (Aug 7, 2024).
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Description of the bug
I think since Jellyfin 10.9.0 I've had an issue where if I mark as movie as a favourite, it'll work and show up in the favourites section, but seemingly randomly all my favourite movies have there favourite flag reset.
It's working fine for TV shows though...
What's even weirder is if I browse the movies by letter, some of them still have a red heart, and I have to click it a few times to finally get it to register in the favourites list again.
It seems like rescanning my movie library causes it to unregister favourites.
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What is the current bug behavior?
Movies I mark as favourite are randomly unfavourited.
What is the expected correct behavior?
Once favourited, I expect them to remain that way.
Jellyfin Server version
10.9.9+
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@kura commented on GitHub (Aug 8, 2024):
As an additional update to this, I discovered tonight that somehow random movies are also being favourited despite me not setting them as a favourite. They appear in the list of favourites and yet the heart icon is not red on either the movie library, movie favourite library, or move item page...
@zivshek commented on GitHub (Sep 1, 2024):
I can confirm I have the same issue as @kura. Not only does it favorite random movies on my behalf, it also displays unfavorited movies, and there's no way to remove them (I can unfavorite those being added by Jellyfin, but they keep coming back).
@CodeMonkeyUK commented on GitHub (Oct 9, 2024):
I have same issue - been driving me nuts for past couple of months.
New Movies are being favourited and existing Movies lose the favourites after a scan of Movies library.
Currently using 10.9.11.
My random findings for what it's worth:
The Favourite flag in the database matches the UI.
Changing via Web UI updates DB correctly.
So doesn't seem to be an issue with setting or querying the faviourite state.
If i run the "Scan Media Library" task then Movie favourites automatically change in the DB.
Same thing happens if i manually scan just the Movies library selecting "Scan for new and updated files".
However, in the Web UI it still shows the Movie favourites as they were though, perhaps queries are still cached.
If i restart jellyfin i then see in the UI what is in the DB and so favourites are "wrong".
Unfortunately i'm not seeing any new entries in the log files when this scan runs.
I can't see any pattern in regards to which Movies are affected.
However, i've noticed in new Movies (never watched) that are auto favourited the Play Count and Last Played in DB seem to incorrectly have a value but the 'Played' is correctly set to '0'
Not sure where this came from - may be a red herring.
Hopefully some of that (rambling) helps narrow down the issue.
@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2025):
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@zivshek commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2025):
It's not fixed yet.
@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Jun 8, 2025):
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@kura commented on GitHub (Jun 8, 2025):
Still not fixed.
@Jacob-077 commented on GitHub (Aug 17, 2025):
Still not fixed :(
@sim642 commented on GitHub (Aug 20, 2025):
I also encountered a version of this mentioned in the comments, where random movies show up in favorites that I didn't favorite, nor can they be unfavorited.
Since I just started with Jellyfin, I only have very few favorites, so here's what I noticed: I favorited a TV show and that caused a random movie to also show up in favorites. If I unfavorited the TV show, then the movie also disappeared from favorites.
@zivshek commented on GitHub (Sep 14, 2025):
seems fixed today? I just removed a bunch of randomly favorited movies, and they are not added back in after restarting the client! I am curious what the issue was, is there a PR or commit?
@CodeMonkeyUK commented on GitHub (Sep 14, 2025):
Seems to now be working for me too.
@kura commented on GitHub (Sep 14, 2025):
There hasn't been a release of Jellyfin since April, are you running 10.11RC5 and auto-updating to RC versions?
I have my Jellyfin running in a containerised environment on latest stable and this is still an issue for me.
@CodeMonkeyUK commented on GitHub (Sep 14, 2025):
Docker container auto updated using 'latest' and currently have this build version if it helps
Linuxserver.io version:- 10.10.7ubu2404-ls76 Build-date:- 2025-09-09T13:06:19+00:00
@zivshek commented on GitHub (Sep 14, 2025):
I am 10.10.7 as well, just upgraded in truenas scale yesterday.
@JPVenson commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
For those that have that issue, do you have NFO savers enabled and also the "Save userdata to NFO" too?
@kura commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
Yes and yes.
@JPVenson commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
@kura do you have multiple users on your server or external tools that modify or update NFOs?
@sim642 commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
In my case (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/12408#issuecomment-3204388728), no.
@kura commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
I have 2 users, my own user that has no admin privs and an admin user that doesn't watch content. No external tools modifying or updating the NFO files.
@JPVenson commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
if you have two users the userdata from one can override the others in the NFO saver. Disable the option to save watch data to NFOs and you should be fine
@kura commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2025):
The admin user is recent, only in the last month. This issue appeared long before I moved to having a dedicated admin user. Additionally the admin user does not watch anything or do any tasks that would modify the NFO files. I also have the
Save user watch data to NFO files foroption set to my normal user.@zivshek commented on GitHub (Sep 20, 2025):
Yes, always had it, but I don't believe it's the multi-user issue, because nobody else uses the favorites feature.
Anyway, I am glad it's now working correctly.
@JPVenson commented on GitHub (Sep 20, 2025):
WatchData, Faviorite status and a few other things are stored together in the same table, so if any one user updates it, it get saved to the NFO but NFOs only support a single set of this data. So if one user updates anything related to watch status, that dataset get written to the NFO
@Prandur commented on GitHub (Dec 16, 2025):
I can see a similar behaviour with music favorites. I havent tested it with movies (yet)
When i favorite a Song it gets added to favorites, but when I reload the page, the marker is gone. The song remains in the favorites.
When I restart the docker container (10.11.5), and navigate to the respective song the marker is there.
@theguymadmax commented on GitHub (Dec 16, 2025):
@Prandur Music favoriting being lost is a different issue introduced in 10.11.x. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/14981
@exaveal commented on GitHub (Dec 21, 2025):
Same problem for me with Jellyfin 10.10.7. Favorites of movies come and go. Currently all my favorites are gone and I cannot add them anymore. Switching off "save watch state to nfo for user X" seems to solve the problem. but nevertheless - my complete favorites are gone.
@rootbdfy commented on GitHub (Dec 23, 2025):
Same issue with favorites on 10.11.5.
@bjornmp commented on GitHub (Jan 9, 2026):
Happening on 10.11.5.
I favorite a song in the web UI and the heart icon turns red, but the backend server doesn't seem to register this, because when I then change the song, replay it, refresh the UI or perform other kind of "let's pull the latest song data from the server" actions, the heart goes from red back to white, showing that it was never registered as favorite in the backend.
@tordenflesk commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2026):
This has caused MediaCleaner to delete Multiple TB of TV.