Saturday, 28 May 2016

Plex Media Server - Recently added stuck in front

So i had an issue where few movies were stuck in fromt of the recently added queue.

Tried removing and re-adding them to Plex with no luck.

As the metadata for all the items are stored in a sqlite3 database the following procedure were used to correct the instances.

Steps to follow:

  1. Find the item you want to edit
  2. Find the database to edit
  3. Exit Plex and update the database file.

Item you want to edit:

Select the movie or episode in question and select "..." >  "Info" or "Get Info" > "View XML" Bottom left of the window.
The property "ratingKey" is the id you need to update in the database.
Note: The date/time is stored in Unix Time in the XML output.

Database location:

On Windows install a SQLite editor e.g. SqliteBrowser
The database is located at


%LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Plug-in Support\Databases\com.plexapp.plugins.library.db


by default or can be found from the web interface: Settings > Server > General > "

Open the database and select the "metadata_items" table.



Browse or search for the id with the value of ratingKey.
Update the time to the correct date/time, easiest would be to make the added_at value same as the created_at value.

Write/Save the changes back to the sqlite3 database and restart plex.



Command line:

This can be done from the command line as well with a command like:

UPDATE metadata_items SET added_at = created_at WHERE id=[value of ratingKey]



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