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(2013-05-27, 18:12)Livin Wrote: @ned,
I find no fault with the 'method' but I, and many, see a need to be able to manually change it. Many of us rip shows/movies that we have seen but want to add to the collection, and do not want showing up in the 'Recent' list. The best way to solve this issue is to have a way to remove the item from the list... just like we can mark items as "watched".
I'm not sure why the debate has gone on... this is really simple - the devs created a very useful feature, tons of us want to use but it does not account for a common use case that many of us have.
Isn't this a different issue than what is being discussed here? Besides, the recent list is a node, and all nodes are editable:
custom video nodes (wiki).
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I've noted that certain movies which I've taken off an old hard drive and have since renamed after copying across are not showing up in recently added. Any idea why this would be?
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(2013-10-01, 14:32)michael7oliver Wrote: I've noted that certain movies which I've taken off an old hard drive and have since renamed after copying across are not showing up in recently added. Any idea why this would be?
By default, XBMC will sort by the "date modified" data for the file. Renaming the file and copying it to another drive might not change that data on all OSes.
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Use a tool such as 'bulk rename utility' (in windows), or 'touch' in Linux.
I assume you're windows... With bulk rename utility, one of the Menus lets you set all the dates. If you don't change the file name (by setting any if the main screen regular expressions), only the date will change then.
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On windows i used a tool called SmartTimeStamp to modify any files. You can also use the advanced settings to change it so the dateAdded is the date added to library like in the previous version.
I really think there should be an option when you refresh a show when you can select datedAdded to be the file date or curent date, hiding it in a advanced setting is too cumbersome to keep changing.
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I was wondering, for XBMC 13, did you guys add the ability to choose which sorting method we want? I forgot where I mentioned it before but plex has two, sort by release date and sort by date added, that would essentially fix everything really. Like I said before I prefer the new method but only for tv shows, for movies not so much as I tend to grab a few oldies and forget about them because they are not on my recently added. The fix basically allows it to be either or for both movies and tv shows, in a perfect world id like the tv shows to use to new method but movies to stay the old way.
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I believe the name of the category is "Recently added". What did you really expect? ^^
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hi.. is there any way to have it use the below ?
for movies:
folder created date (file created date can be very old but i will create the folder each time i want to add a movie so that will be the right order date)
for tv:
episode file created date