2023-10-14, 03:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-10-14, 04:01 PM by TH35. Edited 1 time in total.)
I'm not entirely clear what @hackerpschorr has their settings actually set to.
I'm having an issue with this lately as well. In my Dashboard>Libraries>Display menu, I have "Use file creation date" as the "date added" behavior, because I wanted to avoid "most recent" listings in situations where media is deleted and replaced by a better quality copy, or where Jellyfin removes and re-adds media.
All of a sudden recently, shows are not showing up on "Latest TV". So I investigated, and it seems as though certain of my files that are brand new episodes of brand new shows have file creation dates from 2004 or 2012. This is the date that Jellyfin is using (because of the above setting - the file creation date on your system) and that is why it is not showing as "latest".
If you change that setting to "date scanned into library", it *should* use the date Jellyfin found that file on your system, which *should* be today or yesterday or whatever day it was. I have changed the setting to that today and we'll see if it causes other issues.
My bigger issue is figuring out why the file creation dates are from years ago. I don't know if this is a brand new problem or something I just haven't noticed. But I don't believe the file creation date being backdated has anything to do with Jellyfin. It should have to do with the software that is creating/downloading the files in the first place, which is what I have to investigate. I think it may be due to the way I am downloading files (newsgroup) that is preserving the original file creation/modification dates, and that the dates may be wrong on the original creator's end which is carrying through to my download.
I'm having an issue with this lately as well. In my Dashboard>Libraries>Display menu, I have "Use file creation date" as the "date added" behavior, because I wanted to avoid "most recent" listings in situations where media is deleted and replaced by a better quality copy, or where Jellyfin removes and re-adds media.
All of a sudden recently, shows are not showing up on "Latest TV". So I investigated, and it seems as though certain of my files that are brand new episodes of brand new shows have file creation dates from 2004 or 2012. This is the date that Jellyfin is using (because of the above setting - the file creation date on your system) and that is why it is not showing as "latest".
If you change that setting to "date scanned into library", it *should* use the date Jellyfin found that file on your system, which *should* be today or yesterday or whatever day it was. I have changed the setting to that today and we'll see if it causes other issues.
My bigger issue is figuring out why the file creation dates are from years ago. I don't know if this is a brand new problem or something I just haven't noticed. But I don't believe the file creation date being backdated has anything to do with Jellyfin. It should have to do with the software that is creating/downloading the files in the first place, which is what I have to investigate. I think it may be due to the way I am downloading files (newsgroup) that is preserving the original file creation/modification dates, and that the dates may be wrong on the original creator's end which is carrying through to my download.