Continue watching not working at all

[TheDreadPirate]

I don't use NFOs, but from what others have said it appears there was a significant change in how Jellyfin organizes and uses NFOs in 10.9.

I'm not sure what the cleanest course of action is, but you could create a small test library and figure out how Jellyfin creates, organizes, and uses NFOs when it creates them vs an external app.

Once you have that figured out, some creative uses of the find command and loops could automate elimination or reorganization of your NFOs.

[theguymadmax]

In Dashboard->Libraries->NFO Settings
There is an option to "Save user watch data to NFO files for". If there is a username selected, then change it to none. If none is already selected then try the opposite and see if that works.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

I wonder if you have anything overwriting the NFO files, maybe the watched status gets reset due to that.

All you have to do to disable them is to turn off NFO files in the library settings.

For movies, with v10.8.13, NFO files were named "movie-filename.nfo". With v10.9, they're now named "movie.nfo". I remember that when I updated to v10.9, my movie library kept the old one and also created the new nfo file, so each movie had both. I deleted the old nfo files.

Make a backup first before mass deleting things.

Basically, if you want to delete them all, just search through your library folders for "movie.nfo" and "movie-filename.nfo", then delete them. Obviously the tricky ones to search for are the ones named after the filename.

[fromage9747]

Lol, yes, yesterday I was searching for anything that could solve this issue and came across this setting "Save user watch data to NFO files for" which I had configured last year, and it didn't really do anything, but I guess with the 10.9 upgrade it started to do something. Changing it back to none appears to have solved the issue.

It's weird though that Series worked, I did not have any issues with series losing their resume status or being removed from continue watching in the 10.9.x update. Only movies were affected.

Now it's just the extremely slow search that can hopefully be fixed!

At least one less headache in my life.

[ThomasPGH]

I just rememberd that there was an issue with the Jellyfin app for Android TV and 10.8.13. Since it hasn't been explicitely mentioned here yet, the app never updated the watched status if a film or an episode had more than one version.
Right now it's impossible to tell if this bug still exists because the Android TV app always only plays the first version of an episode or film.

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All you have to do to disable them is to turn off NFO files in the library settings.

If you turn the creation of .nfo files off you can't move media to different disks/folders anymore.

For movies, with v10.8.13, NFO files were named "movie-filename.nfo". With v10.9, they're now named "movie.nfo". I remember that when I updated to v10.9, my movie library kept the old one and also created the new nfo file, so each movie had both. I deleted the old nfo files.

Make a backup first before mass deleting things.

Basically, if you want to delete them all, just search through your library folders for "movie.nfo" and "movie-filename.nfo", then delete them. Obviously the tricky ones to search for are the ones named after the filename.

That's how I understood it too from what I've read somewhere but it doesn't seem to work like this. Sometimes the "film (year).nfo" file is still created after it's been deleted. I've yet to figure out how and why this happens.

[ThomasPGH]

According to https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/12080 , it seems it creates "film (year).nfo" when a film is added to a collection. This could be it for the films I noticed these files appear or were updated.

[kevinnord]

 Obviously the tricky ones to search for are the ones named after the filename.

from the top level directory of where you keep your media:

Code:

find . -type f -name '*.nfo' -type f ! -name 'movie.nfo' -delete

does the job